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Parma tracheostomy technique: a hybrid approach to tracheostomy between classical surgical and percutaneous tracheostomies.
Objectives: The aim of our study is to compare the classical surgical tracheostomy (TT)
technique with a modified surgical technique designed and created by the cardiothoracic
surgery staff of our department to reduce surgical trauma and postoperative complications.
This modified technique combines features of percutaneous tracheostomy and surgical
tracheostomy avoiding the use of specialized tools, which are required in percutaneous
tracheostomy
Methods: From October 2008 to March 2014 we performed 67 tracheostomies using this
New Modified Surgical Technique (NMST) and 56 tracheostomy with the Classical
Surgical Technique (CST). We collected data about the early clinical complications, deaths
tracheostomy-related, deaths due to other complications and the presence of late TT’s
complications was performed by a telephone follow-up. SPSS software (IMB version 21)
was used for the statistical analysis. Categorical data were treated with chi square test and
continuous data were treated with “t” test for independent samples.
Results: NMST group had a significant lower number of early complications (p = 0,005)
compared to CST group (5 vs. 15). In-Hospital mortality was significantly higher in CST
group (18 deaths vs. 4 in NMST group, p = 0,001) but we registered only one case of
tracheostomy-related mortality in CST group (p = 0,280). We did not note other differences
between the two groups regarding short or mid-long term complications.
Conclusions: In our experience the NMST demonstrated to be easily safe and
reproducible with an amount of early, mid- and long-term complications similar to the
classical surgical technique; furthermore the aesthetic results of the procedure appear
similar to those of percutaneous tracheostom