@article{7e44e98271cb4b72a66bdb238424095b,
title = "Tracheostomy in ventilator dependent trauma patients: a prospective, randomized intention-to-treat study",
author = "Barquist, \{Erik S\} and Jose Amortegui and Ali Hallal and Giovanni Giannotti and Robb Whinney and Heythem Alzamel and Jana MacLeod",
note = "Background: Tracheostomy is a commonly performed procedure in ventilator dependent patients. Many critical care practitioners believe that performing a tracheostomy early in the postinjury period decreases the length of ventilator dependence as well as having other benefits such as better patient tolerance and lower respiratory dead space.",
year = "2006",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1097/01.TA.0000196743.37261.3F",
language = "American English",
volume = "60",
journal = "Journal of Trauma-injury Infection and Critical Care",
number = "1",
}