Have a freind who has been hospitalized for over a week with two tubes in mouth for breathing and stomach drainage.  Pancreatitis swollen twice its size.  The doctors want to do a tracheotomy and the faimily needs to say yes or no.  what is this benefit for the paitient?  More comfort possibly?
For friend might need prolonged hospital stay and ventilator. The benefits of a tracheostomy are it will help to keep the airway / wind pipe clean of secretions. It will be more comfortable than a tube passed through his mouth. It will also help in assisting his breathing better via a ventilator