Tracheostomy complications

1.Obstruction of the tracheostomy tube due to -

a) any clot in the tube

b) Any mucus plug in the tube

c) impingement on the posterior tracheal wall

d) partial displacement into the mediastinum or in a false passage

2. Wound infection

3. Tracheal injury and granulation tissue formation.

4. Fatal haemorrhage due to injury to inomanate artery due to continuous irritation and injury causing a tracheo-inominate fistula leading due massive haemorrhage and death.

5. Tracheo-oesophageal fistula.

6. Scar formation and tracheal tug.

7.Difficult decanulation.