Is tracheotomy process necessary?
Patient: Have a freind who has been hospitalized for over a week with two tubes in mouth for breathing and stomach drainage.  Pancreatitis swollen twice its size.  The doctors want to do a tracheotomy and the faimily needs to say yes or no.  what is this benefit for the paitient?  More comfort possibly? Doctor: Yor friend might need prolonged hospital stay and ventilator . The benefits of a tracheostomy are it will help to keep the airway / wind pipe clean of secretions. It will be more comfortable than a tube passed through his mouth. It will also help in assisting his breathing better via a ventilator