Removal of tracheostomy tube

Conventional surgical approaches for hypopharyngeal carcinomas have a great risk for developing treatment-related morbidity. To… (More)

Tracheostomy tubes are placed for a variety of reasons, including failure to wean from mechanical ventilation, inability to… (More)

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a prolonged form of cardiopulmonary bypass used to support patients with life… (More)

BACKGROUND With the decrease of life-threatening obstructive upper airway infections and the ongoing improvement of intensive… (More)

INTRODUCTION Sleep apnea is one of the most frequent manifestations of respiratory obstruction. Historically this clinical entity… (More)

OBJECTIVE To compare surgical (SgT) and percutaneous (PcT) tracheostomies. BACKGROUND Percutaneous tracheostomy has been said… (More)

The purpose of this study was to prospectively compare parameters that might predict successful translaryngeal extubation and… (More)

Ciaglia et al first reported percutaneous dilatational subcricoid tracheostomy in 1985. We are now reporting the results on 165… (More)

OBJECTIVE To compare percutaneous tracheostomy with conventional operative tracheostomy. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial… (More)

Severe laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS) in children is a problem of increasing incidence in the past 15 years, following the… (More)