A comparative study of the complications of surgical tracheostomy in morbidly obese critically ill patients

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue , 2007, Pages

  El Solh, Ali A ^a   Jaafar, Wafaa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BAROTRAUMA; BODY MASS; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIGLOTTITIS; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRACHEOSTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION; AGED; APACHE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 33846914400     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5147     Document Type: Article

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