Since the beginning of intensive care in the 1950s until today, tracheostomy has been in permanent play. Successive epochs may be differentiated through several periods.1 The first period started in August 1952, when Bjorn Ibsen, facing a huge polio epidemic so deadly that about 80% of the patients were dying in Copenhagen from the respiratory form, he performed tracheostomies and delivered con...

objectives: to compare the results of early versus late tracheostomy in trauma patients admitted to intensive care unit (icu). methods: this was case control study being performed at a major trauma centre in shiraz, iran including 120 trauma patients admitted to icu during a 2-year period and underwent tracheostomy during their icu stay. the patients were categorized into two groups of the earl...

Background. While single-institution studies reported the indications and outcomes of tracheostomy in children with congenital heart disease (CHD), no national analyses have been performed. We sought to examine the indications, performance, outcomes, and resource utilization of tracheostomy in children with CHD using a nationally representative database. Methods. We identified all children unde...

Conservative management of severe tetanus neonatorum is attended by a very high mortality (Tompkins, 1958; Wright, 1960a; Adams, Holloway, and Thambiran, 1964). Tracheostomy in addition to sedation has not been successful in preventing respiratory failure, which necessitated mechanical ventilation (IPPV) in about 90% of the patients described by Holloway (1967). Although IPPV has been shown to ...

Study objective: The percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy can be performed with a low compli¬ cation rate if several important technical details are followed. This study delineates our experience and recommends changes in the operative technique. Design and setting: Patients requiring tracheostomy were selected for percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy based on previously reported criteria. ...

INTRODUCTION Tracheostomy is a common airway procedure for life support. The fracture of the tracheostomy tube is a rare complication. We report a case of a 14-year-old boy whose fractured stainless steel tracheostomy tube dislodged into the tracheobronchial tree. We include a literature review and proposed recommendations for tracheostomy care. CASE PRESENTATION A 14-year-old Thai boy who ha...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the feasibility of uninterrupted translaryngeal open ventilation delivered through a pediatric, uncuffed endotracheal tube during percutaneous endoscopic tracheostomy (PET). DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective, observational clinical study in a six-bed ICU of a university hospital. PATIENTS Forty consecutive adult patients requiring an elective tracheostomy. INTERV...

Several methods have been developed for performing percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) since the introduction of technique in 1955. The has an acceptable, quicker, and safer method compared with surgical at bedside. We described unassisted PDT based on modified Selinger using Ciaglia Blue Rhino® introducer set.

The incidence, aetiology and long term outcomes of laryngotracheal complications secondary to Tracheostomy insertion in patients ventilated for COVID-19 critical Illness are currently unknown. We report a single case from our institutional series who developed early subglottic stenosis subsequent traceomalacia preventing permanent tracheostomy removal despite three decannulation attempts. consi...