학술논문
493: SAFETY OF TRACHEOSTOMY IN NEUTROPENIC CRITICALLY ILL CANCER PATIENTS.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*TRACHEOTOMY
*CANCER patients
*CRITICALLY ill
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ISSN
0090-3493
Abstract
B Learning Objectives: b To study the safety, infection risks, and survival associated with performing elective tracheostomies in neutropenic patients. B Methods: b A case-control study analysis of adult neutropenic and 100 random non-neutropenic patients admitted to an oncologic ICU that underwent a tracheostomy between 1/2006 and 8/2015. Neutropenic patients did not experience an increased number of infections compared with control patients. [Extracted from the article]