Abstract:Background
Coronavirus disease 2019 increased the numbers of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, with a subsequent increase in tracheostomy procedures. Coronavirus disease 2019 patients are high risk for surgical complications. This review examines open surgical and percutaneous tracheostomy complications in coronavirus disease 2019 patients.
Methods
Medline and Embase databases were searched (November 2021), and the abstracts of relevant articles were screened. Data wer… Show more
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