Abstract
When percutaneous tracheostomy was steadily gaining acceptance in the community of intensivists worldwide, the Australian surgeon William Griggs invented another tracheostomy technique – the guide wire dilating forceps technique (GWDF). The stoma is created with a modified Howard Kelly forceps, in which the guidewire passes through a central hole in the tip of the closed forceps. Spreading the forceps by pulling the handles apart dilates pretracheal tissues and the anterior tracheal wall. The final step consists of inserting a lubricated tracheostomy tube with its obturator into the tracheal lumen. The entire procedure requires continuous bronchoscopic surveillance.
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Byhahn, C. (2016). Percutaneous Tracheostomy: The Guide Wire Dilating Forceps Technique. In: Servillo, G., Pelosi, P. (eds) Percutaneous Tracheostomy in Critically Ill Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22300-1_7
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