Tracheostomy In The Intensive Care Unit- A Developing Country Experience (original) (raw)
2009, The Internet Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence, indications and outcome for patients that had a tracheostomy in the intensive care unit of a teaching hospital in a developing nation.METHODS: This is an observational retrospective study of intensive care unit patients that received a tracheostomy in the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu from March 2003 to February 2007.The hospital records of the patients were reviewed for demographics, indications for admissions, duration of admission and outcome.RESULTS: Ten patients (2%) had tracheostomy while on admission in the intensive care unit from a total of 497 admissions. All the patients had surgical tracheostomy. Eight patients had post surgical tracheostomy to maintain a patent airway following postoperative airway obstruction while two patients had ST for the Gullian Barre syndrome and severe head injury. There were four deaths.CONCLUSION: Like some other studies from Nigeria, the number of patients that received a tracheostomy in the intensive care was small and the major indication was to relieve postoperative airway obstruction.
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