Major tracheal tear and bilateral tension pneumothorax complicating percutaneous tracheostomy.

摘要

The most severely ill patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) often require a tracheostomy. The standard surgical tracheostomy technique was described in 1909 by Jackson.12 In 1957, Shelden et al3 first described the percutaneous tracheostomy. In 1985, Ciaglia et al4 reported a method based on needle-guide wire airway access followed by serial dilatations with sequentially larger dilators (Ciaglia blue rhino). Griggs et al5 described the guide wire dilating forceps technique in 1990. In 2001, a PercuTwist percutaneous tracheostomy set was introduced by Rusch, Kernen, Germany.