To explore this possible benefit from tracheostomy, the alteration in ventilation and blood gases produced by changing from nose and mouth breathing to that through the tracheal opening has been ...

For several decades, MV has been performed through an endotracheal tube, and, in case of prolonged EI, through a tracheostomy tube. This exposes the patient to complications which arise during the ...

For critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation, early tracheostomy (within the first 4 days after admission) was not associated with an improvement in the risk of death within 30 ...

Among hospitalized patients with respiratory failure, those with COVID-19 who required mechanical ventilation and tracheostomy were more likely to recover compared with those without COVID-19 ...

Tracheostomy should be delayed in critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial.

Early tracheostomy within 9 days of mechanical ventilation was associated with lower 90-day mortality and hospital length of stay compared with late tracheostomy in patients with COPD, according ...

The risk for rehospitalization for infants requiring tracheostomy and ventilator support was affected by prolonged oxygen use, prolonged ventilator dependence, inhaled steroid use and equipment ...