Singh Y, Soni KD, Singh A, Choudhary N, Perveen F, Aggarwal R, Patel N, Kumar S, Trikha A. Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients who underwent tracheostomy and its effect on outcome: A retrospective observational study. World J Virol 2022; 11(6): 477-484 [PMID: 36483098 DOI: 10.5501/wjv.v11.i6.477]
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Abhishek Singh, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 5th floor, Teaching block All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India. bikunrs77@gmail.com
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Infectious Diseases
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Retrospective Cohort Study
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Singh Y, Soni KD, Singh A, Choudhary N, Perveen F, Aggarwal R, Patel N, Kumar S, Trikha A. Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients who underwent tracheostomy and its effect on outcome: A retrospective observational study. World J Virol 2022; 11(6): 477-484 [PMID: 36483098 DOI: 10.5501/wjv.v11.i6.477]
Yudhyavir Singh, Abhishek Singh, Nikita Choudhary, Fahina Perveen, Nishant Patel, Shailendra Kumar, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
Kapil Dev Soni, Richa Aggarwal, Department of Critical and Intensive Care, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
Anjan Trikha, Department of Anesthesia, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
Author contributions: Singh A, Soni KD, Aggarwal R, Singh Y, Patel N, Kumar K, Chaudhary N, Perveen F, and Trikha A contributed to conception, study design, as well as data collection and evaluation; Singh A and Soni KD contributed to statistical analysis, and interpretation of data; Singh A, Singh Y, and Trikha A drafted the manuscript, which was revised by Soni KD; all authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The retrospective data presented in this study is the part of the project titled–Post discharge outcomes of COVID-19 patients following admission to the intensive care unit, which was approved by the institute ethics committee (Reference No. IEC-291/17.04.2020).
Informed consent statement: As the study was retrospective in nature, informed written consent from individual patients was waived.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the Authors have no conflict of interest related to the manuscript.
Data sharing statement: Data can be made available at proper request by writing to the authors at bikunrs77@gmail.com.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Corresponding author: Abhishek Singh, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 5th floor, Teaching block All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India. bikunrs77@gmail.com
Received: April 20, 2022 Peer-review started: April 20, 2022 First decision: May 31, 2022 Revised: June 12, 2022 Accepted: September 21, 2022 Article in press: September 21, 2022 Published online: November 25, 2022 Processing time: 216 Days and 21.1 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: Tracheostomies are commonly performed in critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation for a prolonged duration. Various recommendations and guidelines have been published regarding the safety of tracheostomy in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients but literature with respect to indication, timing and outcome of tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients is still lacking. Therefore, in this study we aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of patients who underwent elective tracheostomies and multiple parameters affecting the outcomes in these patients. We found that patients with severe COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation had a poor prognosis but patients with early tracheostomy may benefit from this procedure.
