When you are performing an emergency tracheotomy?

Question:

Where is it you do the insertion? How far up from the collar bone?

Answers:
feel along the collar bone...you'll feel an indentation where the collar bones meet. feel right above the notch, there will be a soft-fleshy spot covering a hard/spongy feeling spot. this is the trachea. from here make a one inch incision making sure not to puncture the white membrane underneath. then use hemostats TO puncture the membrane, spread the hemoastats and insert a tube into the airway......release the hemostats then tape the tube down. about one inch of tube should extend out of the throat.

Above the cricoid cartilage but below the adam's apple...just feel for the cricoid and go above it.

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When you are performing an emergency tracheotomy?

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