“Tracheostomy healing time after decannulation”: can we improve it?

Özlem Özkan Kuşcu; Dilek Özcengiz; Antonio M. Esquinas

doi:10.4081/mrm.2022.857

“Tracheostomy healing time after decannulation”: can we improve it?

Authors

Özlem Özkan Kuşcu Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2252-4289
Dilek Özcengiz Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana
Antonio M. Esquinas Hospital General Universitario Morales Meseguer, Molina Segura, Murcia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/mrm.2022.857

Keywords:

Tracheostomy healing time, decannulation, wound healing, wound infection, nutrition

Abstract

Dear Editor,

We read with great interest the article “Tracheostomy healing time after decannulation” by Christiansen et al. The authors aimed to determine the tracheostomy wound healing time after decannulation...

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