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ArticleThe Lancet. Respiratory medicine2020

Walking the line between benefit and harm from tracheostomy in COVID-19.

Marcus J Schultz, Rajyabardhan Pattnaik, Arjen M Dondorp

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Article in The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Outcome of Tracheostomy in COVID-19 Patients.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023
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  7. Outcomes of Tracheostomy in COVID-19 Patients: A Single Centre Experience.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022
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  8. Surgical tracheotomy in COVID-19 patients: an Italian single centre experience.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2021
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  10. Challenges of tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients in a tertiary centre in inner city London.International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2020
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  12. Open Tracheostomy for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19.International journal of otolaryngology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marcus J SchultzMahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Intensive Care, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Netherlands. Electronic address: marcus.j.schultz@gmail.com.
Rajyabardhan PattnaikCritical Care Unit, Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Orissa, India.
Arjen M DondorpMahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Intensive Care, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Netherlands.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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BetacoronavirusPandemicsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Tracheostomy

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PMID32422179
PMCPMC7228697

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