ArticleAnnals of cardiac anaesthesia
Percutaneous tracheostomy in patients on anticoagulants.
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- Safety of Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy Under Uninterrupted Therapeutic Anticoagulation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the Safety of Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomies in Patients with Antiplatelet Therapy-A Comparison of Two Single-Step Percutaneous Dilatational Techniques.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- A clinical retrospective study of percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy without guide wire for critically ill patients.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2021Article
- Perioperative Considerations for Tracheostomies in the Era of COVID-19.Anesthesia and analgesia · 2020Review
- Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy in patients with mechanical circulatory support: Is the procedure safe?Turk gogus kalp damar cerrahisi dergisi · 2020Article
- Tracheostomy in Adult Intensive Care Unit: An ISCCM Expert Panel Practice Recommendations.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2020Article
- Safety of Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheotomy in Patients on Dual Antiplatelet Therapy and Anticoagulation.Critical care explorations · 2019Article
- Management of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy in patients undergoing interventional pulmonary procedures.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2017Review
- Safety of Surgical Tracheostomy during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.Korean journal of critical care medicine · 2017Article
- Erratum: Percutaneous tracheostomy in patients on anticoagulants.Annals of cardiac anaesthesiaArticle
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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
aimsTo determine if percutaneous tracheostomy is safe in critically ill patients treated with anticoagulant therapies. SETTINGS AND
designSingle-center retrospective study including all the patients who underwent percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) placement over a 1-year period in a 14-bed, cardiothoracic and vascular Intensive Care Unit (ICU). MATERIALS AND
methodsPatients demographics and characteristics, anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapies, coagulation profile, performed technique and use of bronchoscopic guidance were retrieved.
resultsThirty-six patients (2.7% of the overall ICU population) underwent PDT over the study period. Twenty-six (72%) patients were on anticoagulation therapy, 1 patient was on antiplatelet therapy and 2 further patients received prophylactic doses of low molecular weight heparin. Only 4 patients had normal coagulation profile and were not receiving anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapies. Overall, bleeding of any severity complicated 19% of PDT. No procedure-related deaths occurred.
conclusionsPDT was proved to be safe even in critically ill-patients treated with anticoagulant therapies. Larger prospective studies are needed to confirm our findings.
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