ALLMedicine™ Tracheostomy Center

Sep 12th, 2021 - Patients with acute traumatic cervical or high thoracic level spinal cord injury (SCI) typically require mechanical ventilation (MV) during their acute admission. Placement of a tracheostomy is preferred when prolonged weaning from MV is anticipat...

Sep 8th, 2021 - Suprastomal collapse and granulation are common sequelae of pediatric tracheostomy. We present the first measure of suprastomal obstructive pathology, the Seattle Suprastomal Safety Score (5S), an instrument with 2 domains: collapse and granulatio...

Sep 4th, 2021 - To determine the impact of race on outcomes after pediatric tracheostomy. Retrospective case series. A case series of tracheostomies at an urban, tertiary care children's hospital between 2014 and 2019 was conducted. Children were grouped by race ...

Sep 1st, 2021 - This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2021. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2021 . Further information about...

Aug 31st, 2021 - The novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has threatened the health of tens of millions of people worldwide and imposed heavy burden on global healthcare systems. In this paper, we propose a model to predict whether a patient infected...

Sep 24th, 2020 - Management of patients with a tracheostomy tube includes many components of care provided by clinicians from various health care disciplines. In recent years, clinicians worldwide have demonstrated a renewed interest in the management of patients ...

Jun 9th, 2020 - The role of tracheostomy during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remains unknown. The goal of this consensus statement is to examine the current evidence for performing tracheostomy in patients with respiratory failure from COVID-1...

Dec 29th, 2016 - Rib fractures are identified in 10% of all injury victims and are associated with significant morbidity (33%) and mortality (12%). Significant progress has been made in the management of rib fractures over the past few decades, including operative...

Nov 11th, 2010 - Practice parameters for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in adults by surgical modification of the upper airway were first published in 1996 by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (formerly ASDA). The following practice ...

Mar 25th, 2008 - Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in ventilated critically ill patients. To develop evidence-based guidelines for the prevention of VAP. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Database of Sys...

Nov 12th, 2020 - Patients must be at least 18 years of age with severe COVID-19 pneumonia (and/or ARDS) confirmed per World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, and evidence of pulmonary infiltration (by chest X-ray and/or CT scan), including a virological confirma...

Jul 13th, 2020 - Noninvasive ventilation (NIV): refers to the administration of ventilatory support without using an invasive artificial airway (endotracheal tube or tracheostomy tube). NPPV is well established in the management of acute on chronic hypercapnic res...

Jun 18th, 2020 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To decrease the length of invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) and rate of 30-day mortality from CRS due to SARS-CoV-2. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To decrease the rates of intensive care unit (ICU) transfer. II. To decrease the...

May 21st, 2020 - Total thyroidectomy is currently the preferred surgical treatment modality for both thyroid carcinomas and benign disorders such as multinodular goitre, since it minimizes the risk of recurrence and eliminates the complication risks of repeat or c...

Dec 20th, 2011 - Weaning from mechanical ventilator is an essential element in the care of critically ill intubated patients receiving mechanical ventilation. It covers the entire process of liberating the patient from mechanical support and from endotracheal tube...

Jun 7th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Scientists have identified four specific, dominant variants of the SPTLC1 gene in 11 children from seven different families who appear to have a new and unique form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The findings suggest th...

Jun 3rd, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - With appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), healthcare professionals (HCPs) are at low risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 while performing tracheostomy, a new systematic review and meta-analysis suggests. "By demo...

Mar 18th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Early tracheotomy placement in critically ill patients is associated with lower ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates, shorter durations of mechanical ventilation and fewer ICU days, but not with reduced short-ter...

Mar 9th, 2021 - Infants with type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) showed promising signs, including an increased expression of functional survival motor neuron (SMN) protein in the blood, after 1 year of treatment with oral risdiplam (Evrysdi, Genentech), accordi...

Dec 19th, 2020 - (Reuters Health) - In SARS-CoV-2 infected patients it may make sense to do tracheostomies earlier -seven to 14 days after the patient has started on a ventilator - rather than waiting another week, a new study suggests. In a retrospective review o...