Comments on: Emergency tracheostomy http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/emergency-tracheostomy.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/emergency-tracheostomy.html#comment-84737 Anonymous Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/emergency-tracheostomy.html#comment-84737 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. <br/><br/>Percutaneous trachs are marvelous in the properly selected patient. 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.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/emergency-tracheostomy.html#comment-84724 Anonymous Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/emergency-tracheostomy.html#comment-84724 Anonymous, try revising one of these state-of-the-art percutaneous trachs, especially when the thing falls out on the floor and nurses frantically call the pulmonologist who put it in, only to hear the reply "call the ENT on call, -click-".<br/><br/>BTW I've done four "slash" trachs and a crich, and they are scary. Anonymous, try revising one of these state-of-the-art percutaneous trachs, especially when the thing falls out on the floor and nurses frantically call the pulmonologist who put it in, only to hear the reply “call the ENT on call, -click-”.

BTW I’ve done four “slash” trachs and a crich, and they are scary.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/emergency-tracheostomy.html#comment-84718 Anonymous Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/emergency-tracheostomy.html#comment-84718 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 But Dr Schwab is wildly out of date on the state-of-the-art percutaneous technique which obviates so much surgical elegance. 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 But Dr Schwab is wildly out of date on the state-of-the-art percutaneous technique which obviates so much surgical elegance.

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