Transtracheal Systems SCOOP 1 Transtracheal Oxygen Catheter

Features

• Transtracheal Systems SCOOP 1 Transtracheal Oxygen Catheter is packaged with a cleaning rod, lubricating jelly, physician instructions and patient cleaning instructions
• Catheters need to be replaced every ninety days (3 months), or immediately if they become kinked, hard, yellow, brittle, cracked, or develop a foul odor, to insure patient safety and product effectiveness
• Appropriate catheter length is achieved when the catheter tip rests 2cm to 4cm above the patients carina as determined by a post-procedure chest x-ray

More Information

• Specific indications for SCOOP transtracheal oxygen therapy includes:
  - Need for improved mobility
  - Suboptimal compliance related to nasal cannula
  - Complications of nasal cannula
  - Cor pulmonale or erythrocythemia on nasal oxygen
  - Refractory hypoxemia
  - Patient preference
• SCOOP Catheters:
  The SCOOP catheter is a 9 French, single distal port catheter available in 9cm, 11cm, and 13cm lengths. The correct length SCOOP catheter must be used in all newly created tracts while the tract matures, and then continue to be used in mature tracts for flows up to 12liter per minute. Catheter cleaning can often be achieved in place through the use of the cleaning rod and the periodic instillation of saline. Once the tract is mature, cleaning may also be achieved by replacing the indwelling SCOOP catheter with a clean SCOOP catheter. The method and frequency of cleaning is totally dependent on each patients clinical course