Pediatric tracheotomy wound complications: Incidence and significance

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 363-366

  Jaryszak, Eric M ^a   Shah, Rahul K ^a   Amling, June ^b   Peña, Maria T ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INFANT; LARYNX DISORDER; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMAL WOUND; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND CARE; WOUND COMPLICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESSURE ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRACHEOTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954465619     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2011.33     Document Type: Article

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