Bradley D. Freeman, MD, discusses his article published in the December 2009 issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “Examination of Non-Clinical Factors Affecting Tracheostomy Practice in an Academic Surgical Intensive Care Unit.” Freeman is an associate professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Freeman discusses his study which centers on the topic of who should undergo a tracheostomy and when it should happen in the surgical ICU.
