Safe and effective management of tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients

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BACKGROUND: An increasing number of COVID-19 patients worldwide will probably need tracheostomy in an emergency or at the recovering stage of COVID-19. We explored the safe and effective management of tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients, to benefit patients and protect health care workers at the same time.

METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed 11 hospitalized COVID-19 patients undergoing tracheostomy. Clinical features of patients, ventilator withdrawal after tracheostomy, surgical complications, and nosocomial infection of the health care workers associated with the tracheostomy were analyzed.

RESULTS: The tracheostomy of all the 11 cases (100%) was performed successfully, including percutaneous tracheostomy of 6 cases (54.5%) and conventional open tracheostomy of 5 cases (45.5%). No severe postoperative complications occurred, and no health care workers associated with the tracheostomy are confirmed to be infected by SARS-CoV-2.

CONCLUSION: Comprehensive evaluation before tracheostomy, optimized procedures during tracheostomy, and special care after tracheostomy can make the tracheostomy safe and beneficial in COVID-19 patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Head & neck - 42(2020), 7 vom: 24. Juli, Seite 1374-1381

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Xiaomeng [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Qiling [VerfasserIn]
Niu, Xun [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Hongjun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
Nosocomial infection
Observational Study
Open
Percutaneous
Tracheostomy

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Date Completed 22.07.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/hed.26261

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM310098874