Emergency equipment
The following emergency equipment must be kept with an inpatient at all times:
- Functioning suction facilities (where centralised suction is not available, as is often the case in the community, independent portable suction units should be used.)
- Appropriate sized suction catheters
- Yankauer sucker
- Non-rebreathe circuit and/or adult bag-valve-mask with reservoir with tubing*
- Oxygen*
- Spare tracheostomy tubes (one of the same size and one a size smaller) usually the same type but must be a type that can easily be inserted in an emergency situation
- Tracheal dilators*
- Tracheostomy disconnection wedge
- Stitch cutter ( if sutures present)*
- Water soluble gel
*Item may not always be required in patients cared for in the community.