Introduction
Emergency tracheostomy procedure is full of risks. Immediate complications include severe damage to the trachea, hematoma formation, subcutaneous emphysema, esophageal injury, thyroid gland or nerves injury. A collection of blood (hematoma), which may form in the neck and compress the trachea, causing breathing problems in this study we compared the complication between emergency open and percutaneous tracheostomy.
Material and Methods
In this retrospective study emergency open tracheostomy was done in 23 cases and emergency percutaneous tracheostomy was done in 52 cases. Immediate complications were compared in both these procedure.
Observation
The Table 1 shows the complications rate in emergency open and emergency percutaneous tracheostomy.
Table 1
Discussion
Emergency tracheostomy procedure is full of risks. In our study it is clear that emergency percutaneous tracheostomy is far better than emergency open tracheostomy and it is statistically significant. On review of literature we found that percutaneous tracheostomy is generally preferred to surgical tracheostomy (ST) in intensive care patients as it can be performed more readily on the ICU.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Kevin M. Higgins et al. study also suggested that in their meta-analysis had shown that percutaneous tracheotomies trend toward fewer overall complications than open techniques and appear to be more cost-effective by releasing operating room resources including time and personnel, provide greater feasibility in terms of bedside capability.7 Thyroid injury seems to complicate both percutaneous and surgical tracheostomy. One may be encouraged by the knowledge that in an autopsy case series many of the percutaneous attempts did in fact skewer the thyroid safely, without incurring any new haemorrhagic complications.8
