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Impact of Obesity on Timing of Tracheotomy: A Multi-institutional Retrospective Study.

Impact of Obesity on Timing of Tracheotomy: A Multi-institutional Retrospective Study. The Laryngoscope Yousef, A., Soliman, S. I., Solomon, I., Panuganti, B. A., Francis, D. O., Pang, J., Klebaner, D., Asturias, A., Alattar, A., Wood, S., Terry, M., Bryson, P. C., Tipton, C. B., Zhao, E. E., O'Rourke, A., Santa Maria, C., Grimm, D. R., Sung, C. K., Lao, W. P., Thompson, J. M., Crawley, B. K., Rosen, S., Berezovsky, A., Kupfer, R., Hennesy, T. B., Clary, M., Joseph, I. T., Sarhadi, K., Kuhn, M., Abdel-Aty, Y., Kennedy, M. M., Lott, D. G., Weissbrod, P. A. 2024

Abstract

To examine the impact of increased body mass index (BMI) on (1) tracheotomy timing and (2) short-term surgical complications requiring a return to the operating room and 30-day mortality utilizing data from the Multi-Institutional Study on Tracheotomy (MIST).A retrospective analysis of patients from the MIST database who underwent surgical or percutaneous tracheotomy between 2013 and 2016 at eight institutions was completed. Unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression analyses were used to assess the impact of obesity on tracheotomy timing and complications.Among the 3369 patients who underwent tracheotomy, 41.0% were obese and 21.6% were morbidly obese. BMI was associated with higher rates of prolonged intubation prior to tracheotomy accounting for comorbidities, indication for tracheotomy, institution, and type of tracheostomy (p?=?0.001). Morbidly obese patients (BMI =35?kg/m2) experienced a longer duration of intubation compared with patients with a normal BMI (median days intubated [IQR 25%-75%]: 11.0?days [7-17?days] versus 9.0?days [5-14?days]; p?

View details for DOI 10.1002/lary.31586

View details for PubMedID 38895915