Fig. 17.1 Key recommendations of Danish guidelines 2015 for percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy in the intensive care unit The first step to build a standardised approach to percutaneous tracheostomy was to…
Fig. 16.1 Critically ill patients divided according the mental status The rules of IC and the way to design the surrogate for critically ill patients differ across countries [5]. Many…
1. Humidification should be used during the immediate postoperative period and as necessary thereafter. 2. Humidification should be used if a patient requires mechanical ventilation. 3. Humidification should be used…
Fig. 11.1 (a) Local anaesthesia of the skin, the subcutaneous tissue and the trachea. (b) Air bubbles observed into the syringe after aspiration confirm the position in the airway. (c)…
Despite each technique has specific characteristics, all PDT are carried out during general anaesthesia using modified Seldinger technique (with the exception for TLT technique that uses a translaryngeal approach) and…
Author, year [ref] Number of studies Type of included studies Population Searching strategy until (years) Statistical analysis Number of patients Main outcome Conclusions Dulguerov et al. (1999) [7] 65 articles…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Giuseppe Servillo and Paolo Pelosi (eds.)Percutaneous Tracheostomy in Critically Ill Patients10.1007/978-3-319-22300-1_9 9. Choice of the Appropriate Tracheostomy Technique Luca Cabrini1, Margherita Pintaudi1, Dario Winterton1, Giovanni Landoni1 and Alberto Zangrillo1 (1) Department of Anesthesia and Intensive…
Indications Need for prolonged mechanical ventilation Upper airway obstruction Potential benefits Patient’s comfort and reduced need for sedation Improved clearance of airway secretions Faster weaning from mechanical ventilation Avoidance of…
The balloon dilation system (d) is a modified nylon-made angioplasty balloon 5.4 cm long, with an external diameter of 16 mm, when totally inflated (it is designed to reach a…
(1) Hôpital Ambroise Paré Service de Réanimation Médicale, Boulogne (Paris-West University), France Electronic supplementary material The online version of this chapter (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15371-1_28) contains supplementary material, which is available to…
