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Best practices for emergency surgical airway: A systematic review
Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2019 Objective In the case of an emergency surgical airway, current guidelines state that surgical cricothyrotomy is preferable to tracheotomy. However, complications associated with emergency cricothyrotomy may be more frequent and severe.
Elliana K. DeVore +3 more
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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1993 A patient underwent elective tracheotomy before resection of the floor of the mouth. After operation, several life-threatening complications arose from this tracheotomy, including surgical emphysema of the tracheal mucosa which has not been described previously.
M D, Mansfield, G C, Pugh, M, Brockway
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Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2013 This is a case report of a 28-year-old male patient with severe traumatic brain injury and Glasgow coma scale score = 8: E2 M5 V T , who required a tracheotomy for airway protection.
Sanjay Singhal, S Kiran, Avinash Das
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BMC Neurology, 2019 Objective Patients with severe brain injury is usual at high risk of extubation failure, despite of those with no/minor primary respiratory problem, majority of them still needs long term respiratory support and has severe pulmonary complications.
Meiling Dong +5 more
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Cervical anaerobic vertebral osteomyelitis following surgical tracheotomy: a case report
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background We report a rare case of anaerobic vertebral osteomyelitis associated with surgical tracheotomy which has never been reported to the best of our knowledge. Case presentation A healthy 39-year-old man was admitted to intensive care for a severe
Romaric Larcher +6 more
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Customized Tracheostomy Cannula as a Therapeutic Adjunct in Tracheal Stenosis
Case Reports in Otolaryngology, 2013 Tracheotomy is often successfully used to manage tracheal stenosis, as a temporizing measure prior to definitive treatment or a long-term remedy. In some patients, where a sizeable portion trachea is stenotic, the fixed arm of an ordinary tracheotomy ...
Doh Young Lee +7 more
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Cancer MedicineBackground Elective tracheotomy is commonly performed in resected oral squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) to maintain airway patency. However, the indications for this procedure vary among surgeons.
Ku‐Hao Fang +30 more
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