Table 5.

List of our functional discharge criteria.

List of functional discharge criteria
Full ambulation	walking unrestricted
Sufficient nutrition	Intake of calculated daily nutritional calorie requirement
Sufficient pain relief	No need for analgesia in excess of the per oral opioid-sparing regimen
No suspected infection	Normothermia & normal biochemical infection parameters
Closure of tracheostomy	Closure or thorough education in self-management of tracheostoma
Bowel function	Stool and flatulence passing