Is percutaneous dilational tracheotomy equivalent to traditional open surgical tracheotomy with regard to perioperative and postoperative complications?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1423-1424

  Weissbrod, Philip A ^a   Merati, Albert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BLEEDING; CARTILAGE FRACTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORTALITY; OPEN SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; PERCUTANEOUS DILATIONAL TRACHEOTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMATITIS; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRACHEOTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 84862847591     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23289     Document Type: Review

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