Percutaneous tracheostomy in critically ill patients: 24 months experience at a tertiary care hospital in United Arab Emirates

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-29

  Ahmed, Raees ^a   Rady, Sherif R ^b   Siddique, Javed Iqbal Mohammad ^a   Iqbal, Mobeen ^c  

^a RASHID HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^b MAFRAQ HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^c SHIFA INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Complications; Percutaneous tracheostomy (PCT); Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANNULATION; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CELLULITIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GENDER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS TRACHEOSTOMY; PERFORATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUNCTURE; SEPSIS; STOMAL CELLULITIS; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRACHEAL PERFORATION; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VENTILATOR;

EID: 77649114996     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.58956     Document Type: Article

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