Tracheostomy

Pediatric Chronic Home Invasive Ventilation

PE Moore, D Boyer, MG O'Connor, CD Baker, JS Rettig… - Annals of the American …, 2016

... A significant number of deaths in children dependent on invasive ventilation are caused by
tracheostomy-related accidents or complications (4). A recent study found that low–inspiratory
pressure alarms did not alarm when decannulation was tested using the smaller diameter ...

Billing and Coding for Procedures

D Carpenter - Interventional Critical Care, 2016

... Codes 36822, 36960 and 33961 were deleted. In their place a set of 25 codes covering
management, insertion, repositioning and decannulation were included in the CPT manual. ...Finally,
decannulation uses CPT 33965 for birth to 5 years and CPT 33966 for age 6 or older. ...

Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy

PS Sandor, DS Shapiro - Interventional Critical Care, 2016

... BMI > 35 kg/m 2 —larger patients may have pre-cervical soft tissue that is too thick for the standard
tracheostomy tube to traverse, resulting in incomplete or poor cannulation of the trachea and
high risk for inadvertent decannulation; extra long tracheostomy tubes may be ...

[PDF] Granular Cell Tumour of Larynx—A Case Report

DS Deenadayal, BN Kumar, N Naeem, V Bommakanti - International Journal of …, 2016

... Mass was arising from the inter aryetenoid area extending into left aryetenoid which was reduced
using coblation. Videolaryngo- scopy on 8th POD revealed an adequate airway, hence
decannulation was done after capping the tracheostomy tube and observing for 48 hrs. ...

Ambulance dispatches to schools during a 5‐year period in Fukui Prefecture

Y Takinami, S Maeda - Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2016

... head or face were classified as “orthopedic injuries”; trauma, contusions, and fractures of the
head and face were classified as “neurosurgical injuries”; and all other conditions including
cardiopulmonary arrest (one case of hanging only), tracheostomy decannulation, and cases ...

Extra Corporal Membrane Oxygenation and Extracorporeal Life Support

J Van Horn - Interventional Critical Care, 2016

... If the patient continues to fail, they may be candidates for a ventricular assist device
(VAD) [3]. 45.10 Decannulation. For open cannulation techniques, arterial vessels
are repaired with patch, and veins are repaired or ligated. ...

Surgical vs Nonsurgical Treatment Modalities for T3 Glottic Squamous Cell Carcinoma

M Al-Gilani, SA Skillington, D Kallogjeri, B Haughey… - JAMA Otolaryngology–Head …, 2016

... Tracheostomy depen- dence indicated significant alteration of the normal airway, which
precluded decannulation. Gastrostomy dependence in- dicated significant swallowing
dysfunction that required supplementation through a gastrostomy tube. ...