Fiberoptic bronchoscopy-guided percutaneous tracheostomy in an infant

Gönül Küçük; Gülnur Göllü; Ufuk Ateş; Çiğdem Yıldırım-Güçlü; Zekeriyya Alanoğlu; Hüseyin Dindar

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.10592

Gönül Küçük¹, Gülnur Göllü¹, Ufuk Ateş¹, Çiğdem Yıldırım-Güçlü², Zekeriyya Alanoğlu², Hüseyin Dindar¹

¹Departments of Pediatric Surgery, Medical Faculty of Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
²Departments of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Medical Faculty of Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.10592

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Percutaneous tracheostomy is a routine procedure in adults; however, it is rarely used in children. In this article, we present a two-month-old infant weighing 3,500 g who was performed bronchoscopy-guided percutaneous tracheostomy.

Keywords : Bronchoscopy; infant; tracheostomy

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