Danish Guidelines 2015 for percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy in the intensive care unit.
Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy is a common procedure in intensive care. This updated Danish national guideline describes indications, contraindications and complications, and gives recommendations for timing, anaesthesia, and technique, use of fibre bronchoscopy and ultrasound guidance, as well as decannulation strategy, training, and education.
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Odense University Hospital, Soendre Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense C, Denmark. kristian.roerbaek.madsen@rsyd.dk.
Kristian Rørbæk
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Madsen
Henrik
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Guldager
Mikael
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Rewers
Sven-Olaf
SO
Weber
Kurt
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Købke-Jacobsen
Jonathan
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White
D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D000075202:Contraindications; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D016638:Critical Illness; D003718:Denmark; D004106:Dilatation / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*