Advantages | - Ease of replacement (once tract has formed)
- Speech, mobility, and swallowing enhanced
- Patient can be nursed outside of ICU
- Ease of suctioning
- Patient comfort
- Improved oral care and hygiene
- Airway stability during transport or ambulation
| - Rapid insertion by skilled consultant in most settings
- Lack of need for surgical procedure (risk, expense)
- Lack of stomal complications
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