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Outcome of 1890 tracheostomies for critical COVID-19 patients: a national cohort study in Spain.
Observational study in 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. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Increasing the precision of simulated percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy-a pilot prototype device development study.iScience · 2024Article
- Complement factor D targeting protects endotheliopathy in organoid and monkey models of COVID-19.Cell stem cell · 2023Article
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- Indications and Recommendations for Tracheostomy in Trauma Population With COVID-19 Infection: A Review of the Literature.The American surgeon · 2023Review
- PERCUTANEOUS DILATATIONAL TRACHEOSTOMY IN COVID-19 PATIENTS IN THE COVID HOSPITAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: THE UNIVERSITY CLINICAL CENTER OF VOJVODINA EXPERIENCE.Acta clinica Croatica · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe question of an optimal strategy and outcomes in COVID-19 tracheostomy has not been answered yet. The critical focus in our case study is to evaluate the outcomes of tracheostomy on intubated COVID-19 patients.
methodsA multicentric prospective observational study of 1890 COVID-19 patients undergoing tracheostomy across 120 hospitals was conducted over 7 weeks in Spain (March 28 to May 15, 2020). Data were collected with an innovative approach: instant messaging via WhatsApp. OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS: complications, achieved weaning and decannulation and survival.
resultsWe performed 1,461 surgical (81.3%) and 429 percutaneous tracheostomies. Median timing of tracheostomy was 12 days (4-42 days) since orotracheal intubation. A close follow-up of 1616/1890 (85.5%) patients at the cut-off time of 1-month follow-up showed that in 842 (52.1%) patients, weaning was achieved, while 391 (24.2%) were still under mechanical ventilation and 383 (23.7%) patients had died from COVID-19. Decannulation among those in whom weaning was successful (n = 842) was achieved in 683 (81%) patients.
conclusionTo the best of our knowledge, this is the largest cohort of COVID-19 patients undergoing tracheostomy. The critical focus is the unprecedented amount of tracheostomies: 1890 in 7 weeks. Weaning could be achieved in over half of the patients with follow-up. Almost one out of four tracheotomized patients died from COVID-19.
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