Effect of early versus late or no tracheostomy on mortality and pneumonia of critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation: A systematic review and meta-analysis

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 150-158

  Siempos, Ilias I ^a,b,c   Ntaidou, Theodora K ^b   Filippidis, Filippos T ^d   Choi, Augustine M K ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSLARYNGEAL INTUBATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 84922065899     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: 22132619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00007-7     Document Type: Article

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