Who are we?

We started as a group of 4 Intensive Care Doctors working in Manchester who want to improve the management of patients with tracheostomies. We have sought the help of other colleagues in Critical Care, Anaesthesia, ENT surgery and Maxillofacial surgery, forming a multi-disciplinary, multi-site working party to develop these resources. We have tested and developed our emergency guidance with high fideltiy simulators using specific scenarios to ensure that nursing staff, doctors and allied health professionals can follow our algorithms. We have also tried and tested this guidance in a number of different different Trusts in the North West and developed the project incorporating multi-site, multi-speciality peer review and feedback.

Following the positive feedback which we encountered, we have presented this work to the UK Difficult Airway Society and the UK Intensive Care Society. We are currently engaged with these groups, the National Patient Safety Agency, ENT and MaxFax Royal Colleges and our regional ANWICU and AMICU networks to develop a national tracheostomy safety resource. Further details can be found here.

We are...

Dr Brendan McGrath (left), Consultant in Anaesthesia & ICM, University Hospital of South Manchester
Dr Dougal Atkinson (right),Consultant in Anaesthesia & ICM, Central Manchester University Hospitals

Dr John Moore (left),Consultant in Anaesthesia & ICM, Central Manchester University Hospitals
Dr Lucy Bates (right), SpR in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, North West Deanery

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