Safe tracheostomy: blunt puncture and dilation after minimal surgical exposure of the trachea (BPAD tracheostomy)

Hisatake Matsumoto; Mitsuo Ohnishi; Akinori Wakai; Tomoya Hirose; Nobuto Mori; Jotaro Tachino; Daikai Sadamitsu; Takeshi Shimazu

doi:10.1002/ccr3.340

Safe tracheostomy: blunt puncture and dilation after minimal surgical exposure of the trachea (BPAD tracheostomy)

Clin Case Rep. 2015 Oct;3(10):773-6. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.340. Epub 2015 Aug 20.

Authors

Hisatake Matsumoto¹, Mitsuo Ohnishi¹, Akinori Wakai², Tomoya Hirose¹, Nobuto Mori¹, Jotaro Tachino¹, Daikai Sadamitsu², Takeshi Shimazu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Osaka, Japan.
² Traumatology and Critical Care Medical Center, National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital Osaka, Japan.

Abstract

A number of complications can occur following both surgical tracheostomy (ST) and percutaneous tracheostomy (PT). A flexible new tracheostomy insertion technique with the advantages of both ST and PT is proposed to reduce these complications. Our blunt puncture and dilation technique (BPAD tracheostomy) appears to be technically safe and feasible to perform.

Keywords: Bronchoscopy; modified tracheostomy; procedures; technique.

Publication types

Case Reports