| Autor: |
SHAFIQUE, SALMAN, SHAIKH, ARSALAN AHMED, PUNJABI, SUNEEL KUMAR |
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Pakistan Oral & Dental Journal; Dec2014, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p609-612, 4p |
| Abstrakt: |
Tracheostomy is a very common emergency procedure & it is most widely used in patients suffering from airway obstruction either as emergency or electively. This Descriptive study was conducted to evaluate complications of tracheostomy from January 2008 to December 2009 at Department of oral & Maxillofacial Surgery & otorhinolaryngology Civil Hospital Karachi. This study included 175 patients who underwent tracheostomy, were evaluated for occurrence of various types of complications and also their frequencies. Out of 175 patients, age ranged from 10 years to 82 years (Std Deviation ±15.06). 75.4% of patients were male and 24.6% of patients were female and male to female ratio was 3.1:1. The overall complications were 47.4%. Among them 28.9% suffered early complications while 40.9% and 30.2% had intermediate and late complication respectively. Obstruction of tube was seen in 21.7% as the most frequent intermediate complication whereas primary hemorrhage was the most frequent early complication that accounts for 19.3%. However Supra - stomal granulation tissue was reported 14.5% as late complication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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