title: [Surgical treacheotomy in intensive care].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To test validity, safety, costs and healing-outcome of surgical minitracheotomy after cannula removing.
  
  
  METHODS
  
  
  
  METHODS
  Opened, perspective. Site: Polyvalent ICU.
  
  
  METHODS
  40 patients underwent surgical minitracheotomy, in a year. Traditional surgical technique was adopted. Minitracheotomy was performed by intravenous general anesthesia with curarization and in mechanical ventilation. Intra-operative monitoring: ECG, non-invasive blood pressure and SaO2 by digital pulse oximetry. If a bleeding appeared, hemorrhage was stopped by vessel binding.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Technical difficulty was the same in every tracheotomy carried out. Complications appeared in 7 patients. There were 2 infectious cases for stoma, resolved in 7 and 12 days respectively by local disinfection and antibiotic therapy. There were 5 cases with moderate bleeding; in one patient only a surgical procedure was necessary.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgical tracheotomy represents a good and safe method in ICU; complications are few, if safety conditions are observed. Tracheotomy made in ICU reduced the use of medical and paramedical staff and operative rooms; unlike percutaneous procedure, in the surgical technique an always the same set after simple sterilization is used. Healing-outcome of surgical tracheotomy, after cannula removing, is the same with both techniques.
authors.affiliation: Azienda Policlinico, Università degli Studi, Modena.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Leonelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guasti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barbieri
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D014140:Tracheotomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*