Emergency tracheostomy during COVID 19 pandemic in a head and neck surgical oncology unit

• Awake, emergency, intervention for an unsecured critical upper airway obstruction is a challenge. • Aerosolization and risk of COVID  of 19 transmission add to the already existing difficulty. • Adequate personal protection and  minimum aerosol generation are  the keys to the success.

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Autores principales: George, Ciju K., Varghese, Bipin T., Divya, G.M., Janardhan, Deepak, Thomas, Shaji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32414642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oraloncology.2020.104784
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spelling pubmed-72056312020-05-08 Emergency tracheostomy during COVID 19 pandemic in a head and neck surgical oncology unit George, Ciju K. Varghese, Bipin T. Divya, G.M. Janardhan, Deepak Thomas, Shaji Oral Oncol Article • Awake, emergency, intervention for an unsecured critical upper airway obstruction is a challenge. • Aerosolization and risk of COVID  of 19 transmission add to the already existing difficulty. • Adequate personal protection and  minimum aerosol generation are  the keys to the success. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-08 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7205631/ /pubmed/32414642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oraloncology.2020.104784 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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