Lessons learned from safe tracheostomy aftercare taskforce implemented during COVID-19 pandemic
| Autor: | Scott Troob, Joshua J. Sturm, Brendon DiDonna, Susannah Hills, Sallie Long, Rahul Sharma, Maeher Grewal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Advisory Committees Aftercare Article Retrospective data Tracheostomy Decannulation Pandemic Humans Medicine Statistical analysis Tracheostomy care Tube change Pandemics Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Patient Care Team SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Follow-up Multidisciplinary care Task force COVID-19 Middle Aged After discharge Patient Discharge Otorhinolaryngology Emergency medicine Female business Trach tube |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Otolaryngology |
| ISSN: | 0196-0709 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, our institution instituted a Safe Tracheostomy Aftercare Taskforce (STAT) team to care for the influx of patients undergoing tracheostomies. This review was undertaken to understand this team's impact on outcomes of tracheostomy care. METHODS: We compared retrospective data collected from patients undergoing tracheostomies at our institution from February to June 2019, prior to creation of the STAT team, to prospectively collected data from tracheostomies performed from February to June 2020, while the STAT team was in place and performed statistical analysis on outcomes of care such as decannulation prior to discharge, timely tube change, and post-discharge follow-up. RESULTS: We found that the STAT team significantly increased rate of decannulation prior to discharge (P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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