Prospective evaluation of the retrograde
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Ralf Konopke; Thomas Zimmermann; Andreas Volk; Jaroslaw Pyrc; Hendrik Bergert; A
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Background: Controversy surrounds the safety and practicality of the retrograde percutaneous translaryngeal tracheostomy (fantoni procedure) compared with other percutaneous methods. ## Methods: We used the fantoni tracheostomy for 245 patients in our intensive care unit (icu) over a period of