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ArticleChest2021

POINT: Tracheostomy in Patients With COVID-19: Should We Do It Before 14 Days? Yes.

Michael J Brenner, David Feller-Kopman, Jose De Cardenas

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Article in Chest, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Predictors of Decannulation Success in Tracheostomy: A 10-Year Analysis of the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative Database.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  7. Percutaneous tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients: a retrospective cohort study.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina · 2025
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  10. A 30-day Survival and Safety of Percutaneous Tracheostomy in Moderate-to-severe COVID-19 Pneumonia Patients: A Single-center Experience.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael J BrennerDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI; Global Tracheostomy Collaborative, Raleigh, NC.
David Feller-KopmanDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Jose De CardenasDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI. Electronic address: jdecard@med.umich.edu.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

Funding

Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR)UL1TR002240 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LUMENG, JULIE C, MASHOUR, GEORGE ALEXANDER · 2017 to 2022
$54.9M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002240
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19TracheostomyDuration of TherapyHumansInfection ControlRespiration, ArtificialRisk AssessmentSARS-CoV-2Time-to-Treatment

Identifiers

PMID33651997
PMCPMC7910662
OpenAlexW3134225426

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Registered trials

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