Percutaneous techniques versus surgical techniques for tracheostomy

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Brass, Patrick ^a,b   Hellmich, Martin ^c   Ladra, Angelika ^d   Ladra, Jürgen ^e   Wrzosek, Anna ^f  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM KREFELD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Marien Hospital   (Germany)

^e Abteilung für Chirurgie   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TECHNIQUE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; STOMATITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY TUBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CICATRIX; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICES; DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS; INJURIES; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRACHEA;

ADULT; CICATRIX; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STOMATITIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 84978653449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008045.pub2     Document Type: Review

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