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Influence of early elective tracheostomy on the incidence of postoperative complications in patients undergoing head and neck surgery

BACKGROUND: The incidence of postoperative complications after head and neck surgery is high. This study evaluated the influence of early elective tracheostomy on the incidence of postoperative pneumonia and delirium. METHODS: We reviewed the data of all patients who had undergone removal of an orop...

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Autores principales: Meier, Johannes, Wunschel, Michael, Angermann, Anne, Ettl, Tobias, Metterlein, Thomas, Klingelhöffer, Christoph, Reichert, Torsten E., Ritzka, Markus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6439993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30922231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-019-0715-9