Category: Trached baby and gtube new challenges

Preemies who have had a trache and gtube can be at risk for autism. It is not known whether boys are more predisposed to autism having been through the challenges of being on a ventilator.

To Trache or Not to Trache

I have been skating around this topic for a while now. My friend mentioned that this should have been one of the very first articles I should have written about. But you know, it’s a very sensitive topic  and I want to be able to talk about it objectively. Which I can’t promise because when…

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When In Doubt… Bag ( Ambu bag)

Before we left the NICU I have had many discussions and hands-on experience with the respiratory therapists there. While all of them have different ways on how they do certain things, there was one constant thing that they told me to remember. When in doubt…