“Starplasty” prevents tracheotomy complications in infants
✍ Scribed by Ron Eliashar; Menachem Gross; Pierre Attal; Eitan Hocwald; Jean-Yves Sichel
- Book ID
- 116563563
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Volume
- 68
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-5876
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Infectious complications of tracheotomy range from minor to potentially fatal. Three cases are presented: clavicular osteomyelitis; innominate artery blowout with mediastinitis; and the first reported case of necrotizing fasciitis involving the chest wall related to tracheotomy infection. All patien
## Abstract ## Objectives/Hypothesis: Percutaneous tracheotomy is progressively replacing open tracheotomy as a consequence of promising results of comparative studies. However, this comparison has four considerable weaknesses: 1) selected indications (high‐risk patients excluded for percutaneous