ArticleProceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center)2022
Effect of tracheostomy timing on outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury.
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- Multistage investigation of predictive factors for tracheostomy in brain injury: a bibliometric, descriptive, and retrospective analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of Early Versus Delayed Tracheostomy Strategy on Functional Outcome of Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Target Trial Emulation.Critical care explorations · 2024Trial
- Looking Beyond Hospital Discharge: One-Year Mortality Following Tracheostomy Creation in Traumatically Injured Older Adults.The Journal of surgical research · 2025Article
- Outcomes Associated With Airway Management of Adult Trauma Patients Admitted to Surgical Intensive Care.Cureus · 2024Article
- Early Versus Late Tracheostomy in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: A US Nationwide Analysis.Neurocritical care · 2024Review
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Abstract
Tracheostomy following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common, yet the outcomes associated with tracheostomy timing are unclear. The objective of this study was to assess hospital outcomes of tracheostomy timing in TBI patients. We retrospectively analyzed data from the National Inpatient Sample database of adult patients aged ≥18 years with a primary diagnosis of TBI. Indexed hospitalizations of TBI patients who underwent either percutaneous or surgical tracheostomy between 1995 and 2015 in the United States were included. The interventional groups were 1) early tracheostomy (≤7 days) vs standard tracheostomy (8-14 days), vs late tracheostomy (≥15 days), and 2) tracheostomy vs no tracheostomy. Propensity score matching and conditional logistic regression models were used to analyze in-hospital mortality, length of hospitalization, and in-hospital complications among TBI patients in relation to tracheostomy timing. The risk of in-hospital mortality was 35% lower in patients who underwent tracheostomy vs those who did not (odds ratio 0.65;
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