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Clinical analysis of selective tracheostomy necessary for patients undergoing head and neck surgery with free flap reconstruction
Received date: 2019-03-20
Online published: 2022-04-13
Objective: To discover the factors that may affect the use of selective tracheostomy among patients who have undergone head and neck surgeries with free flap reconstruction, so that the patients will not need tracheostomy nor receive the unnecessary treatment. Methods: Five hundred and thirty-three patients who had undergone head and neck surgery with free flap reconstruction operated by the same team of surgery at Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Peking University School of Stomatology from 2015 to 2016 were reviewed. Three hundred and twenty-one (60.2%) of these patients underwent selective tracheostomy. All the patients’ demographic information, operation-related information, prior treatments, comorbidities and complications were recorded and analyzed. Results: The patients with defects of the tongue, mouth floor, oropharynx and bilateral mandible, who underwent neck dissection and with previous radiotherapy and smoking habit were more likely to get selective tracheostomy. Usage of bulky soft tissue flap might also add to the risk of airway obstruction and the need of selective tracheostomy, while other factors were not significantly related to the risk of postoperative airway obstruction and the patients could be kept safe without selective tracheostomy. Most cases without tracheostomy were kept safe except one case, while 8.39% of the patients with tracheostomy suffered from tracheostomy related complications, mainly pneumonia and hemorrhage of the tracheostomy wound, yet none led to serious consequences or even death. Conclusion: Selective tracheostomy is not necessary for patients who have undergone head and neck surgeries with free flap reconstruction except that there are defects at the tongue, oropharynx and mandible. Neck dissection, bulky soft tissue flap reconstruction, previous radiotherapy and smoking habit may also add to the risk of postoperative airway obstruction, while a favorable decision would involve a combination of all the above factors to assure the safety of the postoperative airway for the patients undergone head and neck surgeries with free flap reconstruction.
Key words： Tracheostomy; Airway management; Free flap reconstruction; head and neck
Tian-yi CAI , Wen-bo ZHANG , Yao YU , Yang WANG , Chi MAO , Chuan-bin GUO , Guang-yan YU , Xin PENG . Clinical analysis of selective tracheostomy necessary for patients undergoing head and neck surgery with free flap reconstruction[J]. Journal of Peking University(Health Sciences), 2022 , 54(2) : 363 -368 . DOI: 10.19723/j.issn.1671-167X.2022.02.026
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