If conventional speaking valves for tracheostomized patients are used improperly, dangerous overpressure can occur, which can cause serious complications and even death. In a collaboration between the ...

A Bengaluru oncologist developed Dhwani, a low-cost, patented tracheostomy tube, after a preventable death in rural India.

A fenestrated tracheostomy tube has an additional opening that can allow more functionality than one without. But it carries additional risks. A tracheostomy is a procedure to create an opening in ...