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Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. Welcome to another Intensive Care at Home livestream.

Today is all about tracheostomy, and today I want to answer a question and I want to deep dive into the question, “How long can you live with a tracheostomy?” It’s a question we get all the time, whether it’s at Intensive Care at Home or at Intensive Care Hotline. It’s a bread-and-butter question for us because we are dealing with so many clients that have a tracheostomy or are at a point where they may get a tracheostomy or want to decide whether they should get a tracheostomy and so forth. So, that’s the topic today, and I want to welcome you all.

Just a couple of housekeeping issues. If you want to ask any questions related to today’s topic, please type them into the chat pad. I’ll also give you the opportunity to dial live into the show if you want to at the end of today’s presentation, and hopefully we can get all of your questions answered.

Before I dive into today’s topic, you may also wonder what makes me qualified to talk about today’s topic, “How long can you live with a tracheostomy?” So, I’m a critical care nurse by background and I have worked in ICU/critical care for over 20 years in three different countries. Out of those 20 years in ICU, I have also worked for over five years as a nurse unit manager in intensive care. I have been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care all over the world since 2013 as part of my intensivecarehotline.com. And I also own and operate an Intensive Care at Home nursing service, Intensive Care at Home, where we provide intensive care nursing services at home for predominantly long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomy. Me and my team, we’re dealing with tracheostomies and tracheostomy clients and ventilation all day, every day with clients all around the world really. So, that’s a little bit about me.

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Let’s dive right into it. How long can you live with a tracheostomy? As much as I would like to give you a number, as much as I would like to give you months, years, whatever it is, the answer is that it really depends, and I want to break down to you why it depends and what are the nuances, how long one can live with a tracheostomy?

Let’s just quickly look at the fundamentals of tracheostomy. When is a tracheostomy being done? Most of the time, a tracheostomy is a result of a patient in ICU, pediatrics or adults. And the inability of them to be weaned off a ventilator with a breathing tube and an endotracheal tube, that’s when patients end up with a tracheostomy. One of the most frequently asked questions that we get, and I’ve done videos about this and blog posts is, “How long can a patient stay on a breathing tube before needing a tracheostomy?” So, that’s basically the fundamentals of tracheostomy, but we’ve covered that in other videos and blog posts previously on our Intensive Care at Home blog, as well as our intensivecarehotline.com blog. So, that’s the fundamentals.

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