Percutaneous tracheostomy with the Blue Rhino™ technique: Presentation of 100 consecutive patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1094-1097

  Fikkers, B G ^a   Briede I S ^a   Verwiel, J M M ^a   Van Den Hoogen, F J A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Tracheostomy; percutaneous, dilatational, complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BLEEDING; CANNULATION; CELLULITIS; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DILATATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0036842669     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2002.02834.x     Document Type: Article

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