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. 2021 Apr:6:183-187.
doi: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2020.11.023. Epub 2020 Dec 7.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Team preparation and approach to tracheostomy

Alejandro C Bribriesco  1 , Monisha Sudarshan  1 , Colin T Gillespie  2 , Paul C Bryson  3 , Brandon Hopkins  3 , Donna Tanner  4 , Siva Raja  1 , Usman Ahmad  1 , Daniel P Raymond  1 , Sudish C Murthy  1
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Team preparation and approach to tracheostomy

Alejandro C Bribriesco et al. JTCVS Tech. 2021 Apr.
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Multidisciplinary approach to devising a protocol for tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients.
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Approaching tracheostomy insertion in the patient with COVID-19. COVID-19, Coronavirus disease 2019; PPE, personal protective equipment.
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COVID-19 tracheostomy simulation. Narrated and annotated video demonstrating our step-by-step approach to performing percutaneous tracheostomy in patients with COVD-19 using a high-fidelity simulation model. (Length of movie: 9 minutes, 9 seconds.) Video available at: https://www.jtcvs.org/article/S2666-2507(20)30718-5/fulltext.
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