* Tracheostomy tube exchange during the first week after tracheostomy is associated with increased risk of potentially severe complications (eg, creating a false passage, hemorrhage, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, infection).
¶ Use of inhaled anesthetics with an uncuffed tube pollutes the operating room with those gases.
Δ At the end of anesthesia the tracheal tube should be exchanged back to the patient's original tracheostomy tube.
◊ At the end of anesthesia the surgeon should exchange the tracheal tube for the patient's original tracheostomy tube.Do you want to add Medilib to your home screen?