Mass General: Video Provides Guidance on Surgery to Wean Patients With COVID-19 Off Ventilators
October 31, 2020
October 31, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 31 -- Massachusetts General Hospital issued the following news release:
A temporary tracheostomy--an opening created in the neck to facilitate placing a tube into a person's windpipe--can be essential for allowing a critically ill patient to come off a ventilator. A new article, with an accompanying video, published in the New England Journal of Medicine by clinicians at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) offers valuable guidance on how to safely p . . .
A temporary tracheostomy--an opening created in the neck to facilitate placing a tube into a person's windpipe--can be essential for allowing a critically ill patient to come off a ventilator. A new article, with an accompanying video, published in the New England Journal of Medicine by clinicians at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) offers valuable guidance on how to safely p . . .