Is prophylactic minitracheostomy beneficial in high-risk patients undergoing thoracotomy and lung resection?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 615-618

  Abdelaziz, Mahmoud ^a   Naidu, Babu ^a,b   Agostini, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lung resection; Prophylactic minitracheostomy; Pulmonary resection

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATALITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG RESECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING HABIT; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET; TRACHEOSTOMY; VEIN LIGATION;

AGED; BENCHMARKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953278708     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.255588     Document Type: Article

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