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Old 07-13-2011, 10:09 AM
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J just got off the ventilator and is now on the heated trach collar - the circuit is always falling off of the dome and I was wondering if there was anything anyone did (that was safe) to help it stick on longer?
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Old 07-13-2011, 11:48 AM
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I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean the blue corrugated tubing is coming off the heater chamber?
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Old 07-13-2011, 04:16 PM
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No I mean the blue tubing is coming off the collar dome.
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Old 07-13-2011, 04:18 PM
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Hmmm weird. Ours is really tough to get on and off. Sounds like maybe you need different tubing?
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Old 07-13-2011, 08:45 PM
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Maybe re-cut the blue tubing? Sometimes if its cut wrong it can be a loose.
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Old 07-14-2011, 07:19 AM
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I must be dense. I'm not understanding what a "collar dome" is. The only 2 connections I can think of would be to the heater (or compressor) or the trach mask.
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Old 07-14-2011, 09:07 AM
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I think she means the trach mask. It's kind of shaped like a dome.
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Old 07-14-2011, 10:06 AM
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Yes I think she means the trach mask. What we do when that happens we just put some tape around the end of the blue tube to make it a tighter fit. And once that is not working anymore, we change the tube.
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Old 07-14-2011, 04:59 PM
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Aaahhhh!

Yeppers. You can trim the tubing down by 1 inch to see if that'll provide a fit that is more snug. Strange. I never had a problem with it popping out unless there was a lot of tugging. Do you have it so the lip of the trach mask is inside one of the corrugated groves?
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Old 07-14-2011, 06:17 PM
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Niff - I don't understand D:
But trach mask? Haha, we call it a dome here Here is a picture of what ours look like -
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