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cord-322167-cpjkltsu	Stubington, Thomas J.	Tracheotomy in COVID‐19 patients: Optimizing patient selection and identifying prognostic indicators	2020-05-22		.txt	text/plain	2679	124	54	• Patients should ideally be at least 14 days post-positive swab result • Low oxygen requirements (FiO 2 ≤ 40%), sustained for at least 24 hours • Patient able to tolerate clamped tube for 1 minute in ICU ("clamp test") • Two failed trials of sedation withholding prior to considering tracheotomy • Patients that will not require prone ventilation Correlation between data sets was determined using the "R" statistical software (v3.6.1, © The R Foundation, Vienna, Austria). The selection criteria proposed in this study (FiO 2 ≤ 50% and PEEP ≤ 8 cm of H 2 O in the 24 hours prior to the tracheotomy) were derived on the basis of our early experience with the first five COVID-19 tracheotomies; of which, one survived (patient A), two died (patients B and C) and the remaining two had a prolonged wean off the ventilator (patient D, who was taken off ventilation at day 17 post-procedure, and patient E, who continues to be on ventilation at the time of writing).	./cache/cord-322167-cpjkltsu.txt	./txt/cord-322167-cpjkltsu.txt