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Next steps…
Time for discharge planning • Now that the baby is stable and has a secure airway with their tracheostomy, they can move out of the intensive care and to the ward. • Parent education continues and a nursing home care package is applied for. • After usually 3 – 4 months of preparation with the community nursing team and the family the baby can finally go home.
Learning all the cares involved with taking care of a child with a tracheostomy. Such as – suctioning the tube, cleaning around the stoma, changing the tracheostomy tube. Infant Basic life support.
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Tracheostomy – how long for?
• Most of the children who get tracheostomy as a baby will get them out before they are 5.
• It depends from child to child how long they will need the tracheostomy.
• Minimum time is two years.
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