Tracheostomy, A Multi-Professional Handbook

Tracheostomy: A Multi-Professional 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.
Contents

List of abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Anatomy and physiology of the respiratory tract Lorraine de Grey; 2. What is a tracheostomy? Tim Price; 3. Surgical tracheostomy Tim Price; 4. Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy Jasmine Patel and Basil Matta; 5. Difficult airway Rakesh Tandon; 6. Tracheostomy tubes Claudia Russell; 7. Tracheostomy management in the intensive care unit Lisa Hooper; 8. Humidification Claudine Billau; 9. Suctioning Claudine Billau; 10. Wound care Claire Scase; 11. Swallowing Pippa Hales; 12. Communication Pippa Hales; 13. Tracheostomy tube changes Claudia Russell; 14. Decannulation Hilary Harkin; 15. Tracheostomy and head and neck cancer Tova Prior and Simon Russell; 16. Long-term tracheostomy and continuing care Claire Scase; 17. Paediatric tracheostomy Francis Vaz; 18. Nursing care of a child with tracheostomy Teresa Johnson and Lucy Andrews; 19. Children's tracheostomy care within the community Lucy Andrews; 20. Evie's story Carol Phillips and Kate Bamkin; 21. Infection control issues in the care of patients with a tracheostomy Cheryl Trundle and Rachel Brooks; 22. Nutritional assessment and management of patients with tracheostomies Vicky Gravenstede; Index.