The case of the week - August 18, 2007
Posted in Nurse anesthesia, Nursing, CRNA, patients, Operating Room, airways, hospital, Case Of The Week, Surgery on Aug 19th, 2007
At XYZ Hospital, we perform at least a half a dozen tracheostomies every week. Done largely for VDRF (ventilatory-dependent respiratory failure) - these surgeries are performed on patients who are unable to be weaned from a ventilator, or are facing longterm ventilation management for their condition. The longer an endotracheal tube sits in a person’s trachea, the greater […]
