If conventional speaking valves for tracheostomized patients are used improperly, dangerous overpressure can occur, which can cause serious complications and even death. In a collaboration between the ...

You don’t know me, and I only learned of you recently. Your type of muscular dystrophy was different than mine, but we both had medical crises that left us with a tracheostomy and the inability to ...

A fenestrated tracheostomy tube has an additional opening that can allow more functionality than one without. But it carries additional risks. A tracheostomy is a procedure to create an opening in ...