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Percutaneous Tracheostomy: Pearls and Pitfalls, and How to Create a “Hand-On” Training Program Course

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Open tracheostomy is one of the oldest surgical procedures known to mankind. Egyptian tablets dating back to 3600BC illustrate what could be the origin of this procedure. Nowadays it is a surgical current procedure, specially in the IUC. At the end of the last century, the minimally invasive surgery improves a lot, and also the percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT). Today the first technical option for tracheostomy is the PDT. This kind of tracheostomy has been made for about 70 years, since its first description made by Shelden in 1955. In 1985, Ciaglia published an important paper and PDT technique becomes the main option of this kind of surgery. In this chapter the PDT technique and the different kits to perform it has been explained. Finally a plan to training hand-on PDT is proposed.

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    Marianne Yumi Nakai M.D., Marcelo Benedito Menezes M.D., Norberto Kodi Kavabata M.D., Alexandre Baba Suehara M.D., Antonio Augusto T. Bertelli M.D., William Kikuchi M.D. & Antonio José Gonçalves M.D.

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Nakai, M.Y. et al. (2018). Percutaneous Tracheostomy: Pearls and Pitfalls, and How to Create a “Hand-On” Training Program Course. In: de Farias, T. (eds) Tracheostomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67867-2_6

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