[Clinical analysis on 45 cases of urgent tracheotomy]

To investigate the clinical characteristics of urgent tracheotomy patients.

Forty-five cases of urgent tracheotomy patients were reviewed retrospectively. The clinical characteristics, pre-operative and post-operative clinical manifestation and complication were studied. Most patients for urgent tracheotomy were head and neck tumor, inflammation and head and neck injury.

Two patients died in operating and two patients died in post-operation. Finding respiratory depression in six patients of long obstruction in post-operation. Eleven patients had complication in operating or post-operation. Hemorrhage and pneumoderma and local trauma were the main complications.

Emergent tracheotomy and elective tracheotomy were different-in the short operation time and body position. Complication incidence rate were higher than normal tracheotomy. Patients of long obstruction after post-operation shouldn't breathe in pure dephlogisticated air to avoidance respiratory depression.