Percutaneous Tracheostomy With COVID-19

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tracheostomy

Treatments: Procedure: Tracheostomy with aerosol box in COVID-19 positive patients

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04447638

TT17

Details and patient eligibility

About

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought about a requirement of intensive care and mechanical ventilation for a significant portion of patients. Percutaneous tracheostomy is performed in order to reduce the complications that may develop due to prolonged endotracheal intubation.

Full description

Different methods are needed for situations in which the potential for producing aerosols is high, such as intubation and tracheostomy. One of these methods is the aerosol box.To share our experiences of percutaneous tracheostomy performed with aerosol box in COVID-19 patients. Patients who underwent percutaneous tracheostomy between March 2020 and June 2020 in the pandemic intensive care unit were evaluated retrospectively.The study is designed as a clinical trial study. This study was performed in faculty of medicine hospital's intensive care unit which is located in Canakkale province Turkey.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• who underwent percutaneous tracheostomy with COVID-19(+)

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who do not give informed consent or do not want to participate in the study
• Coagulopathy, thrombocytopenia