Abstract
Objective: To determine the outcomes in term of early postoperative complications of elective tracheostomy and compare with emergency tracheostomy.
Study Design: Comparative/Observational
Place and Duration of Study:Study was conducted at ENT department of MTI, Khyber teaching hospital, Peshawar for duration of one year, from 1st December, 2018 to 30th November, 2019.
Materials and Methods: Total seventy four patients were presented in this study. Patients were aged between 15-65 years. Patients detailed demographics age, sex and BMI were recorded after taking proper consent. Patients were equally divided into two groups. Group A (n=37) received emergency tracheostomy and group B received elective tracheostomy. After surgery outcomes/complications weremeasured in term of frequency and percentages. Complete data was analyzed by SPSS 24.0 version.
Results:Out of 74 patients, 25 (33.8%) patients were females and 49 (66.22%) patients were males. Mean age of the patients was 42.56 +/- 13.78 years in group A and 41.66 +/- 14.98 years.Frequency of complications were high 21 (56.8%) in group A as compared to group B 7 (21.62%) postoperatively with p-value <0.05. Bleeding was the most common complication observed among 10 (27.02%) patients in group A and 4 (10.81%) patients in group B.
Conclusion:It is concluded that early postoperative complications were high in patients whom were received emergency tracheostomy than elective tracheostomy.