Tracheostomy Emergencies: When Breathing Through Your Neck Goes Bad

Training by,
Laura J Bontempo, MD, M.Ed.
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Part of the EMS training program of the Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company, Baltimore County, MD.
Up to half of tracheostomy patients will experience a tracheostomy related complication. We will discuss the presentation and management of potentially life ending tracheostomy-related events. We will set up at a table and give people the opportunity to see and touch trach tubes and supplies.
Dr. Bontempo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Bontempo completed her medical degree at Northwestern University and emergency medicine residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She spent 5 years at Harvard University as the Associate Emergency Medicine Program Director and then was recruited to Yale University to become the Emergency Medicine Program Director, a position she held for 7 years. Dr. Bontempo completed a master’s degree in education with a concentration in health professional education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has received numerous teaching awards in emergency medicine from Harvard, Yale and Northwestern Universities and the University of Maryland. Dr. Bontempo has published in multiple emergency medicine textbooks and journals and has lectured nationally in the areas of cardiology and otolaryngology.

[@Auriam]

we watched this video at the Center for Medics in Cambridge MA during our training on crichs and trachs, thank you for posting it and teaching us all!

[@heartynoora2583]

We need more of this content

[@trevorhaley3675]

Thank you. I got so much out of this lecture

[@esmaeelalmazog3157]

Thanks a lot... Very informative 👍

[@coelart9331]

Very good

[@thomasfitzpatrick908]

Warning : if you are prone to panic attacks and are about to have this done. DO NOT WATCH.

[@marianadutwumwaa6556]

I learned something

[@TheSteveojee]

9:48

[@rhondabarrett9853]

She makes it sound like every patient is an extremist. I bet she doesn't know that most hospitals only give the patient about a 19 minute course on how to care for their trach. I wish she couldn't breathe for a couple of minutes. I would laugh if I seen her struggling after watching this video.

[@karenmills1261]

So how was she supposed to act?

[@lymint9587]

Some medical staff are just unable to empathize and stand in the shoes of patients. It really hurts the patients emotionally on top of the actual physical suffers. :(

[@trevorhaley3675]

What? She’s an extremely qualified physician teaching EMS how to deal with these emergencies (extremes). What are you on about?

[@jutan7734]

Sorry nothing to comment

[@Nana-jj7zv]

Thank you. It is a good learning experience listening in here as a nurse starting out. Really useful resource.

[@wesleyhughston5358]

Audio is horrible. Enjoyed the content