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Is Tracheotomy Process Necessary?

Have a freind who has been hospitalized for over a week with two tubes in mouth for breathing and stomach drainage. Pancreatitis swollen twice its size. The doctors want to do a tracheotomy and the faimily needs to say yes or no. what is this benefit for the paitient? More comfort possibly?
Fri, 27 Jun 2014
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Yor friend might need prolonged hospital stay and ventilator . The benefits of a tracheostomy are it will help to keep the airway / wind pipe clean of secretions. It will be more comfortable than a tube passed through his mouth. It will also help in assisting his breathing better via a ventilator
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Is Tracheotomy Process Necessary?

Yor friend might need prolonged hospital stay and ventilator . The benefits of a tracheostomy are it will help to keep the airway / wind pipe clean of secretions. It will be more comfortable than a tube passed through his mouth. It will also help in assisting his breathing better via a ventilator