One Year Mortality Rates of Tracheostomy Cases: Life after the Knife

Baram, Michael

doi:10.24966/ets-8798/100006

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“…A tracheotomy is a common procedure performed on patients in the ICU. There is an ongoing debate whether or not early or late tracheotomy gives patients an advantage with respect to long-term survival; recent studies have shown no differences (1,2). When reviewing the literature on patient survival after tracheotomy, there is little information regarding longterm survival (> 6 months after the procedure).…”

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1-year survival rate of ICU patients undergoing tracheotomy, a low volume hospital experience

Mohorko

Markota

Čizmarevič

2021

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Purpose: Many critically ill patients require a tracheotomy during their ICU (Intensive Care Unit) stay. The aim of this study was to determine how many patients that undergo this procedure survive the hospital stay and are alive 1 year after the procedure. Methods: We retrospectively included 144 patients who had tracheotomies during their ICU stay at the UMC (University Medical Centre) Maribor in 2015 and compared the survival between patients hospitalized in the MICU (Medical Intensive Care Unit) and SICU (Surgical Intensive care unit). Results: This study showed that survival after tracheotomy in critically ill patients is low. Only 9.7% of all patients live without a tracheostomy after 1 year. The differences that were statistically significant between the MICU and SICU were observed only after the discharge from the ICU, with more people survivingthe MICU stay. Conclusions: There is little information involving 1-year survival rates of patients undergoing tracheotomies. We conclude that more studies regarding this issue need to be conducted.

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confidence: 99%