Jackson C. Tracheostomy. Sercer A. Tracheostomy through two thousand years of history. A percutaneous tracheostomy device. Clinical experience with percutaneous tracheostomy and cricothyroidotomy in 100 patients. As we have not found a formal definition of PT elsewhere, we shall refer to it as the insertion of a tracheostomy tube without direct visualisation of the trachea, using minimal dissection, through the smallest incision possible.
Percutaneous tracheostomy is also an ancient practice.
But the needs of methods for emergent and military use prompted continued research. Sheldon et al. They stated that this required less than a minute and had minimal bleeding, no morbidity, and no mortality in 4 years' use. It was not stated how many procedures were performed, and there is little further mention of their technique in the literature. This involved inserting a tracheostomy tube loaded over a curved dilator.