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Surgical or percutaneous tracheostomies have become one of the most frequently performed procedures in intensive care unit. Over the past years, different percutaneous tracheostomy techniques have been proposed. Surveys conducted in different European Countries showed that tracheostomy techniques, procedural features as well as complications are markedly heterogeneous among European ICUs and might differ even within ICUs from one country to another. Lacking clinical guidelines to provide the best available scientific evidence and to reduce inappropriate variation in PT practice, a careful analysis of different surveys suggested to physicians the most common practice associated with PT.
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Marra, A., Danzi, M., Vargas, M., Servillo, G. (2016). Tracheostomy in Intensive Care Unit: The Need of European Guidelines. In: Servillo, G., Pelosi, P. (eds) Percutaneous Tracheostomy in Critically Ill Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22300-1_17
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