Pocket Guide 

PDF Files

• How to Clean a Tracheostomy Stoma and Inner Cannula (Trach Care) courtesy of Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
• How to Travel with a Tracheostomy, Resource from Phoenix Children's Hospital
• Financial Burden in Families of Children With Special Health Care Needs: Variability Amoug States, Paul T. Shattuck and Susan L. Parish, Pediatrics 2008
• Ventilator Awareness:  An Educational Resource for School Teachers Created by Jami McDonald (600K PDF file)
• Home Ventilator Guide from the International Ventilator Users Network (IVUN)
• Having a Tracheostomy St Mary's Hospital London UK
• Tracheostomy Care Handbook from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical
• T-tube Manual from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical
• Suggested Equipment List from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical
• Woodworking, giving to others helps one parent cope with child's diagnosis, by Scoot Newport, Exceptional Parent, May 2006
• The Warrior Mentality by Scott Newport, Exceptional Parent. December 2005
• Home Tracheostomy Care, University of Kentucky, Patient Education, May 2003
• Policy for Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning in the School Health Setting,  Courtesy of Escambia County Health Department-school Health Program Escambia County Florida
• Complications of a Medically Complicated Child, Rani Ghose, PhD, American College of Physicians, Aug 2003 
• Babies with Tracheostomies the ASHA Leader, March 2003, by Suzanne S. Abraham (920KB)
• Living with a Tracheostomy, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
• Illustrations from CPEM, Teaching Resource for Instructors in Prehospital Pediatrics
• Download Passy-Muir ad featuring Parker Mackenzie Izzo December 2002 (206K)
• Manual of Care for the Pediatric Trach Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery UNC-CH School of Medicine (446K)
• Care of Children with Chronic Tracheostomy, official statement of the American Thoracic Society, July 1999 (88K)
• Child Tracheostomy Home Care Child Tracheostomy Home Care pdf file from Mallinckrodt, maker of Shiley tracheostomy tubes (250K)
• Adult Tracheostomy Home Care pdf file from Mallinckrodt, maker of Shiley tracheostomy tubes (348K)
• Evolution of an Airway pdf file, tracheostomy history article by Steven E. Sittig, RRT and James E. Pringnitz, RRT, Source:  AARC Times, Feb 2001 (123K)
• Tracheostomy Care Handbook: A Guide for the Health Care Provider  (377K) Portex, Inc. Product Literature
• Pediatric Tracheostomy Care Handbook: An Instructional Booklet for Home Care of Your Child with a Tracheostomy (191K) Portex, Inc. Product Literature
• Families at Risk:  Quality of Life in Technology-Dependent Children and their Families by Dennis J. Baumgardner, MD, March 1999 (275K)
• Tracheostomy Care (source:   http://www2.sph.unc.edu/oce/phnceac/babyguide/trachKEEP2.pdf