The Association of Timing of Tracheostomy and Survival of Patients with COVID-19

Tracheostomy is performed for critically ill patients with prolonged endotracheal intubation including COVID-19 to mitigate the risk of airway complications. We analyzed the difference in mortality of COVID-19 patients undergoing early tracheostomy within 14 days of intubation compared to later trac...

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Autores principales: Kuno, Toshiki, Miyamoto, Yoshihisa, So, Matsuo, Iwagami, Masao, Takahashi, Mai, Egorova, Natalia N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2021
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-021-02966-2
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Sumario:Tracheostomy is performed for critically ill patients with prolonged endotracheal intubation including COVID-19 to mitigate the risk of airway complications. We analyzed the difference in mortality of COVID-19 patients undergoing early tracheostomy within 14 days of intubation compared to later tracheostomy than 14 days after intubation. The mortality was not significantly higher in early tracheostomy compared to later tracheostomy

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