Surgical tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients: report of 5 cases

Severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) related to SARS-COV-2 is resulting in increasing numbers of patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Although tracheostomy may reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation in these patients, it is considered a highly aerosol generating procedure a...

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Autores principales: Aissaoui, Ouissal, Nsiri, Afak, Fehdi, Mohamed Anass, Mouhaoui, Mohamed, Alharrar, Rachid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623580
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.2.23615
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Sumario:Severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) related to SARS-COV-2 is resulting in increasing numbers of patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Although tracheostomy may reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation in these patients, it is considered a highly aerosol generating procedure and controversies regarding its safety, time of realization and indications remain to date. We share our experience about 5 cases of surgical tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients performed in our ICU.

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