Resources

• American Academy of Pediatrics. (1999 Reaffirmed 2006). Transporting Children with Special Health Care Needs. Pediatrics vol 104 no. 4 , 988-992.

• American Academy of Pediatrics (2000) Pediatric Education for Prehospital Providers (PEPP)
  Jones and Bartlett Publishers
  Sudbury, Maine
  http://hcdps.com/protocol/trachtubes.pdf
• American Thoracic Society. (2000). Care of the Child with a Chronic Tracheostomy. American Journal Respiratory Critical Care Medicine vol 161 , 297-308.
  
  Available on line by going to the American Thoracic Society website http://www.thoracic.org/index.php and search using the word tracheostomy.
• Lyons, M. C. (2007). Safe reliable atraumatic replacement of misplaced paediatric tracheostomy tube. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 71 , 1743-1746.
• Verger J.T.,& Lebet R.M (Eds.) (2008). AACN Procedure Manual for Pediatric Acute and Critical Care. St Louis, MO: Saunders Elsevier
• Lecture 9 handout