Pediatric Tracheostomy Emergency
After this activity, your team will be able to:
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1. Present tracheostomy malfunction as a source of respiratory distress.
2. Decide appropriate interventions for patient and clearly demonstrate treatment steps for tracheostomy emergency.
3. Evaluate effectiveness of interventions and determine next appropriate steps in care.
2. Video
​The video includes frame of an animated patient next to a monitor with vital signs that change based on the patient's clinical condition. There is also a prerecorded, narrated prebrief, dispatch, and debrief that you can use to help faciliatate the simulation.
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Use the video's clickable hotspots to navigate to different parts of the video and find content faster. You can also download the video and use if offline, starting and stopping it as indicated. ​
3. Surveys
Please complete the facilitator and participant surveys at the end of the session to help us improve SimBox.
Acknowledgements
Posted: Sept 2025​
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Authors: Marc-Mina Tawfik, MD, Sofia Athanasopoulou MD, Christina Yang, MD​​
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Primary Reviewers: Marc Auerbach MD, Elizabeth Sanseau, MD
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Developers: Becca Mielke RN, Erin Montgomery RN, Allie Brenner, Maybelle Kou MD
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Disclaimer: The booklet and video were created as educational and research resources and not to guide clinical practice. Please reach out to our team with any questions or if you want to contribute.
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SimBox Case: Pediatric Tracheostomy Emergency © September 2025 by Marc-Mina Tawfik, MD, Sofia Athanasopoulou MD, Christina Yang, MD is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/