Tracheostomy in Patients With Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Is It Really a Matter of Timing?

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¹ Department of Neuroscience and Department of Anesthesia, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
² School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
³ Department of Neuroscience and Department of Anesthesia, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
⁴ Unit of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurorehabilitation, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Department of Neuroscience and Department of Anesthesia, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy arturo.chieregato@ospedaleniguarda.it.

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Federico Pozzi et al. Anesth Analg. 2021.

. 2021 Oct 1;133(4):e49-e50.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005669.

¹ Department of Neuroscience and Department of Anesthesia, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
² School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
³ Department of Neuroscience and Department of Anesthesia, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
⁴ Unit of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurorehabilitation, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Department of Neuroscience and Department of Anesthesia, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy arturo.chieregato@ospedaleniguarda.it.

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Mubashir T, Arif AA, Ernest P, Maroufy V, Chaudhry R, Balogh J, Suen C, Reskallah A, Williams GW. Mubashir T, et al. Anesth Analg. 2021 Oct 1;133(4):e50-e51. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005670. Anesth Analg. 2021. PMID: 34524995 No abstract available.

Early Versus Late Tracheostomy in Patients With Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Mubashir T, Arif AA, Ernest P, Maroufy V, Chaudhry R, Balogh J, Suen C, Reskallah A, Williams GW. Mubashir T, et al. Anesth Analg. 2021 Feb 1;132(2):384-394. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005212. Anesth Analg. 2021. PMID: 33009136

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