{"id":922,"date":"2017-04-25T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.pediatricsdirectory.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2023-07-23T22:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T02:24:27","slug":"making-the-trach-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/922\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the trach decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/one_line_mothers_day_baby-2-01-scaled-e1642655296904-1024x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Making the trach decision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>[  EXCERPT ]<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>When my daughter Emma was born, she suffered a hypoxic event that caused significant brain damage. Unable to coordinate eating and breathing, and with little hope that she would master those skills in a reasonable amount of time, we opted to have a G-tube placed. <span class=\"highlighter\">The decision to place the G-tube was very straightforward. She had to eat, she couldn\u2019t do so safely, so we moved forward with the surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the years went on, other procedures and surgeries were suggested to help her grow, thrive, and to otherwise maintain a good quality of life. Procedures like the Nissen Fundoplication, botox injections, or tenotomies. These interventions were always very clear-cut, obviously needed, and were agreed upon by her whole medical team. It made the decision-making process very easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"highlighter\">The decision to move forward with a tracheotomy, however, was much more difficult and emotionally charged for us.<\/span> Because it was basically for secretion management and not an airway issue per se, it was not as clear-cut of a decision as the other procedures had been . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONTINUED @:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/complexchild.org\/articles\/2017-articles\/may\/making-trach-decision\/\">Complex Child<\/a> <\/p>\n<span class=\"tags-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/difficult-decisions\/\" rel=\"tag\">difficult decisions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/parents-stories\/\" rel=\"tag\">parent&#039;s stories<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/tracheostomy\/\" rel=\"tag\">tracheostomy<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the trach decision [ EXCERPT ] When my daughter Emma was born, she suffered a hypoxic event that caused significant brain damage. Unable to coordinate eating and breathing, and with little hope that she would master those skills in a reasonable amount of time, we opted to have a G-tube placed. The decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[194,380],"tags":[895,1617,2043],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5308,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/5308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}