RT Book, Section
A1 Heffner, John E.
A1 Hotchkin, David L.
A2 Tobin, Martin J.
SR Print(0)
ID 57073863
T1 Chapter 40. Care of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient with a Tracheotomy
T2 Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation, 3e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-173626-8
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57073863
RD 2024/04/23
AB Although  Egyptian  tablets  depict  use  of  tracheotomy  for  medical  applications  nearly  5600  years  ago,1  initial  descriptions  of  the  procedure  in  Western  literature  did  not  appear  until  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century.2  By  1718,  “tracheotomy”  became  accepted  terminology  for  the  surgical  technique  that  was  then  primarily  used  for  relief  of  airway  obstruction  and  removal  of  aspirated  foreign  bodies.  Typically  gruesome  clinical  results  relegated  tracheotomy  to  a  reviled  role  in  airway  management  and  gained  it  a  designation  as  the  “scandal  of  surgery.”3  The  diphtheria  epidemics  of  the  nineteenth  century  popularized  tracheotomy.4  Tracheotomy  did  not  become  widely  accepted,  however,  until  1909,  when  Chevalier  Jackson  standardized  surgical  techniques  and  decreased  the  operative  mortality  from  25%  to  less  than  1%.5