First-Aid Friday: Emergency Tracheotomy

Perhaps not the traditional First-Aid Friday..

[Table courtesy to: http://www.tracheostomy.com/resources/surgery/emergency.htm]

	Find the indentation between the Adam's apple and the Cricoid cartilage.
	Make a half-inch horizontal incision about one half inch deep.
	Pinch the incision or insert your finger inside the slit to open it.
	Insert your tube into the incision, roughly one-half to one inch deep.

- Geeker