Tracheostomy: A Multi-Professional Handbook

✍ Scribed by Claudia Russell, Basil Matta

• Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 404
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tracheostomy: A Multiprofessional Handbook is written by a multidisciplinary team of authors to give a unique perspective of this increasingly widely-used technique and which will support research-based care and management and deliver patient-focused rehabilitation. It covers everything from the basics of tracheostomy, through the indications for tracheostomy and all aspects of pre-, peri- and postoperative care of the patient. The latter forms a large part of the book, and focuses on issues of importance to a broad spectrum of healthcare professionals, such as how patient communication is affected by the technique and how optimum wound care during tracheostomy is best achieved, as well as the practical aspects and problems encountered with speech, swallowing and general rehabilitation, nutrition, weaning and decannulation, long-term tracheostomy, tracheostomy in children, and an important chapter on emergency tracheostomy techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 5
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 7
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 12
1 : ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT......Page 13
2 : WHAT IS A TRACHEOSTOMY?......Page 41
3 : SURGICAL TRACHEOSTOMY......Page 47
4 : PERCUTANEOUS DILATATIONAL TRACHEOSTOMY......Page 71
5 : DIFFICULT AIRWAY......Page 81
6 : TRACHEOSTOMY TUBES......Page 97
7 : TRACHEOSTOMY MANAGEMENT IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT......Page 127
8 : HUMIDIFICATION......Page 155
9 : SUCTIONING......Page 169
10 : WOUND CARE......Page 185
11 : SWALLOWING......Page 199
12 : COMMUNICATION......Page 223
13 : TRACHEOSTOMY TUBE CHANGES......Page 247
14 : DECANNULATION......Page 267
15 : TRACHEOSTOMY AND HEAD & NECK CANCER......Page 281
16 : LONG-TERM TRACHEOSTOMY AND CONTINUING CARE......Page 297
17 : PAEDIATRIC TRACHEOSTOMY......Page 321
18 : NURSING CARE OF THE CHILD WITH A TRACHEOSTOMY......Page 329
19 : CHILDREN’S TRACHEOSTOMY CARE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY......Page 343
20 : EVIE’S STORY......Page 351
21 : INFECTION CONTROL ISSUES IN THE CARE OF PATIENTS WITH A TRACHEOSTOMY......Page 355
22 : NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT ANDMANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES......Page 373
INDEX......Page 389