mouth or through a trachostomy (neck) which would you choose? Knowing that nr 1 is VERY uncomfortable and nr 2 have more risks like bleeding?

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Actually, an ET tube is difficult risk than a trach, which is why they do the trach after a patient have been on an ET tube for up to 2 weeks and doesn't give the impression of being to be a candidate for weaning from the ventilator.. ET tubes own a higher risk for bleeding and for forming granulation tissue and scarring within the airway, as well as mess up to the larynx (which contains the vocal cords).
I'd help yourself to the trach any day over an ET tube, not in recent times for the lower risk of permanent injury, but I could use a Passy-Muir stopcock attached to the trach (yes, even while hooked up to the ventilator) which would allow me to talk. Additionally, it is doable to eat by mouth next to some trachs, but it is impossible while intubated.

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If I were surrounded by ICU that long, it probably wouldnt matter to me... I would guess that I be on my last legs, and dying.... so why prolong it near anything....

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Been there, done that, fairly keep the tube contained by my mouth.

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id enjoy to do the trach just explanation the tube in the throat would freak me out i wouldnt be capable of stop thinking about it

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if you be in ICU on ventilator you would be sedated so Q is irrelevant and a tracheotomy is single used when the passage is blocked it is not your choice

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Get the tracheotomy for sure!!Then you would be capable of talk and drink too!

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the one that doesn't involve bleeding

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Having gone through the catheter in the throat regime, neither is too bleak once you get used to it. Yanking the tube out of the throat is a tad prickly. But the worst of it all is the ventilator forces you to breathe surrounded by that systematic pattern that you are not physically in synch to for most of your life.

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If I have a choice I would think through a trachostomy..I don't cogitate I could handle wake up with it surrounded by my throat.. Wondering why u are wondering tho?!?!

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neither. The breathing tube in the mouth is only awful. I was awake while on one at one point and it be just plain worrisome. So, I would rather die consequently have something breathe for me.

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My daughter is almost 3 and have had a trach most of her enthusiasm. If I were going to be on a ventilator for always I would for sure say the trach, it give you a more stable airway for the vent so you can go home. My daughter is at home on a ventilator and its made the world of diffrence.

Also from what i hear a trach surrounded by the long run is NOT as uncomfortable as an ET tube down your mouth, plus a trach would allow you to verbalize, where as an ET tube would not allow for speech.

Trach me anyday, I am too much of a big mouth to be quite

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