Does less surgical trauma result in better outcome in management of iatrogenic tracheobronchial laceration?

Conclusions: Iatrogenic tracheal laceration is a life-threatening complication and the mortality after tracheal injury is high, even in a specialized thoracic unit. Conservative management in patients with superficial tracheal lesion is a feasible procedure. In case of complete laceration of tracheal wall, surgical therapy is recommendable, whereby several approaches of surgical management seem to be equivalent. PMID: 31903267 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31903267?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - January 8, 2020 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Thorac Dis Source Type: research