What is it about?
Patients in acute care who have received a tracheostomy require efficient management to adequately progress through the acute care setting. This progression is predicated on efficient tracheostomy weaning through tracheostomy downsizing, capping and decannulation. The objective of this retrospective study was to review the outcomes of tracheostomy tube changes by speech-language pathologists
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Why is it important?
Conclusions The scope of medical speech pathology services is expanding because of increasing awareness of the benefits of early referral of tracheostomy patients in the acute care setting. The procedural success corroborates the data reported by an earlier study in the literature and adds to the evidence of the efficacy of a competent and experienced speech-language pathologists’ ability to perform low risk tracheostomy tube changes in the acute setting.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long-standing collaborations.
Scott Russell
Grady Memorial Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Tracheostomy tube changes by speech-language pathologists: a service review of an expanded scope of practice, International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, September 2024, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/ijtr.2023.0124.
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