CASE DISCUSSION
Percutaneous Tracheostomy in Critically ill patients
Presented from India by Dr. Hazem Lashin0
Credit Points
0
Learning Hours
0
CPD/CME Points
0
Courses Completed
Case Description
Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is a commonly performed procedure in critically sick patients. It can be safely performed bedside by intensivists. This has resulted in decline in the use of surgical tracheostomy in intensive care unit (ICU) except in a few selected cases. Most common...
Case Summary
- Percutaneous tracheostomy (perk trachi) is a surgical airway created by percutaneous serial dilation, maintained by a tracheostomy tube. It is considered when a patient requires mechanical ventilation for more than 7-10 days, aiming to reduce complications like tracheomalacia. Other indications include facilitating sedation reduction, prolonged ventilator weaning, and airway protection in patients with muscle disease or fluctuating consciousness.
Speaker Profile
Dr. Hazem Lashin
FRCP FFICM FHEA PhD Consultant in Critical Care Medicine Faculty Tutor in Intensive Care Medicine Clinical Lead for High Dependency Unit Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew’s Hospital West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BEDisclosures
Assimilate requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity have been reviewed and mitigated. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.