tracheostomy button

Known as: button tracheostomy

A 0.5-inch- to 1.5-inch-long plastic tube placed in a surgically created opening (tracheostomy) in the windpipe to keep it open.

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2013

Current approaches to decannulation management often fail to account for patients with combined swallowing and respiratory…

2006

1981

This article describes and suggests a protocol for the monitoring and management of problems relating to the use of the Olympic…

1957

Patients, after laryngectomy, sometimes have difficulty maintaining an adequate size of tracheal stoma. Various reasons for this…