Child suffering from Retained Tracheotomy Tube

Tracheomegaly Secondary to Tracheotomy Tube Cuff in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Tracheomegaly has not been reported in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Herein, the authors report a case of tracheomegaly secondary to tracheotomy tube cuff in a patient with ALS. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an ALS patient with tracheomegaly and of tracheomegaly being associated with tracheotomy tube cuff and home tracheotomy mechanical ventilator.The clinician should con...

Verbal communication for the ventilator-dependent patient requiring an inflated tracheotomy tube cuff: A prospective, multicenter study on the Blom tracheotomy tube with speech inner cannula.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to present our findings on the impact of the Blom tracheotomy tube with speech inner cannula on voice production abilities and speech intelligibility scores of ventilator-dependent patients requiring a fully inflated tracheotomy tube cuff. METHODS Prospective single group case-series design permitted consecutive accrual of 23 adult inpatients from acut...

Using Pericardium Allograft in Closing Tracheal Fistula after Removing Tracheotomy Tube

Child sexual abuse: the suffering untold

[Management of retained hemothoraces after chest tube thoracostomy for trauma].

TBE-CiTE Journal Club attended by the following institutions: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Trauma Program, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Trauma Surgery, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil; Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Risoleta T. Neves Hospital, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; Base Hospital São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil. 1. Associate Professo...