Open AccessBedside tracheostomy for a COVID-19 cohort
Author(s) -
Daniel I. Loube,
Kashif Hassan,
Sang H. Lee,
Bruce L. Davidson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
respiratory medicine case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2213-0071
DOI - 10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101346
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , mechanical ventilation , pandemic , intensive care medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , standard precautions , cohort , emergency medicine , infection control , virology , anesthesia , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , electrical engineering , engineering
The use of tracheostomy in ventilator dependent COVID-19 patients is novel because of the recent and rapid spread of this pandemic with risk of transmission of infection to healthcare workers. This case-series of mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients indicates that percutaneous tracheostomy performed at bedside with careful precautions and limited modification of standard technique was effective in promoting weaning from mechanical ventilation with few complications and no transmission of COVID-19 infection to the procedural healthcare workers.
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