{"id":929,"date":"2016-04-25T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.pediatricsdirectory.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2023-08-27T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T04:01:57","slug":"to-trach-or-not-to-trach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/929\/","title":{"rendered":"Trach or no trach"},"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_anatomy_human-6-scaled-e1642656405543.jpg\" alt=\"brain\" class=\"wp-image-930\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>[EXERPT]<\/b><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"standout\">TRACH OR NO TRACH.<\/span> Our daughter, Casey, was born with MANY medical complications. One major complication was that she did not have the ability to gag, suck, or swallow. This left her airway at constant risk. Add this to her reflux and GI issues, and we spent a LOT of time suctioning her airway to prevent aspiration and infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"highlighter\">Very early on, we noticed that Casey\u2019s care team was divided. Some felt (strongly) that Casey should get a trach, while the other half did not agree that it was necessary or that it would even help.<\/span> Ultimately, it was up to us as her parents to decide what made the most sense . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONTINUED @:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/complexchild.org\/articles\/2016-articles\/may\/trach-or-not\/\">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>[EXERPT] TRACH OR NO TRACH. Our daughter, Casey, was born with MANY medical complications. One major complication was that she did not have the ability to gag, suck, or swallow. This left her airway at constant risk. Add this to her reflux and GI issues, and we spent a LOT of time suctioning her airway [&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\/929"}],"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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}