Clinical outcomes for the elderly patient receiving a tracheotomy

Head and Neck

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-76

  Baskin, Jonathan Zvi ^a,b   Panagopoulos, Georgia ^b   Parks, Christine ^b   Rothstein, Stephen ^a   Komisar, Arnold ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly ICU patient; Outcomes; Respiratory failure; Tracheotomy

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANNULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYING; ELDERLY CARE; FEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0347596764     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10356     Document Type: Article

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