Lily's Mom
05-10-2002, 03:39 PM
Hi!
When they pull the trach initially, they usually don't do stitches because should something happen, God forbid, and they had to put the trach back in, it would be obviously easier without the stoma stitched shut. Once the child is "out of the woods" so to speak they can do an easy outpatient procedure to reduce the scar and/or close the stoma completely if it hasn't closed already.
As far as the one apnea episode during the sleep study, I can just tell you what our Dr. told us, that he sometimes sees kids who have 10-15 episodes of obstruction during the sleep study and he still decannulates. Of course this guy also said it was ok to decannulate Lily and she got the trach put back in 4 days later, so take that with a grain of salt!
Best of luck to you!!!
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Erica (Lily's Mom)
When they pull the trach initially, they usually don't do stitches because should something happen, God forbid, and they had to put the trach back in, it would be obviously easier without the stoma stitched shut. Once the child is "out of the woods" so to speak they can do an easy outpatient procedure to reduce the scar and/or close the stoma completely if it hasn't closed already.
As far as the one apnea episode during the sleep study, I can just tell you what our Dr. told us, that he sometimes sees kids who have 10-15 episodes of obstruction during the sleep study and he still decannulates. Of course this guy also said it was ok to decannulate Lily and she got the trach put back in 4 days later, so take that with a grain of salt!
Best of luck to you!!!
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Erica (Lily's Mom)