Trachs and vents at LTC

Specialties Geriatric

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I haven't worked in LTC for awhile. I have heard that some LTC's now have patients with trachs and vents. Is this true? How many trach and or vent patients do you usually have?

Thanks.

Yep..we get a good bit of trach patients. No vents. Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the vents you need resp therapists in house?

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Specializes in rehab.

I say it depends on the facility. Ours, we have a unit solely dedicated to vents- they can be new vents or those who have been on it for years. In that unit we can take 30 people.

Then trachs can go anywhere so we can have however many trached people as long as they are vent free. We have some that are on just oxygen through the trach or some that just are capped.

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