Emergency tracheostomy

Kevin, The article isn’t really about emergency tracheotomy. It’s an elegant dissertation on elective tracheotomy. But Dr Schwab is wildly out of date on the state-of-the-art percutaneous technique which obviates so much surgical elegance.

Umm, Anon 2:12, I AM an otolaryngologist, so I, like you know what I’m talking about with respect to this subject. And yeah, I’ve done emergency cric’s and emergency slash trach’s too. And yeah I’ve been called to revise trachs of all sorts done by all sorts of doctors.

Percutaneous trachs are marvelous in the properly selected patient.