Percutaneous versus surgical tracheostomy: A double-blind randomized trial

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 230, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 708-714

  Gysin, Claudine ^b   Dulguerov, Pavel ^a   Guyot, Jean Philippe ^b   Perneger, Thomas V ^a   Abajo, Blanca ^b   Chevrolet, Jean Claude ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN INCISION; TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0033498195     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199911000-00014     Document Type: Article

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