Essential Management of a Child with a Tracheostomy – ICST

Essential Management of a Child with a Tracheostomy

The aim of this Competency is to train, equip, and support healthcare teams on the essential care for children with tracheostomies, and to reduce unnecessary anxiety surrounding the care of these patients.

Check out the poster and tutorials on the essential management of a child with a tracheostomy. When you are ready, navigate to the assessment to achieve the certificate.

Tutorials

Airway access using a tracheostomy in children

Introducing the TRACHE Safety Bundle

The outcomes of safe tracheostomy care in children

Sub-tutorials

Overview of tracheostomy tubes for babies and children

A demonstration of suction in a child

Changing a tracheostomy tube in an older child

A demonstration of tube change in a young child

Basic Life Support in Children with a Tracheostomy

The Paediatric Emergency Box

Skin integrity of a tracheostomy stoma

Live event recording: An update to TRACHES in Wales

Guidelines

The TRACHE Checklist, the simple steps to look after a child with a Tracheostomy

Resources

Tracheostomy skin and stoma care pathway

An escalation pathway for the care of the skin and stoma around a tracheostomy

Basic life support of babies and children with a tracheostomy

This poster covers the techniques required for Basic Life Support (BLS) of babies (up to one year of age) and children over one year of age who have a tracheostomy.

Emergency Paediatric Tracheostomy Algorithm

The NTSP Emergency Paediatric Tracheostomy Management Algorithm

Assessments

Essential management of a child with a Tracheostomy

40-minute case-based assessment

20 multiple choice questions

80% pass mark (16 out of 20)

Unlimited retakes

On successful completion, your certificate will appear here.

Undertake Assessment

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