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Available online /content/10/2/R55 Vol 10 No 2 Open Access Research Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy versus surgical tracheostomy in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis 1 2 3 Anthony Delaney , Sean M Bagshaw and Marek Nalos 1Intensive Care Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 3Intensive Care Unit, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia Corresponding author: Anthony Delaney, adelaney@.au Received: 16 Jan 2006 Revisions requested: 17 Feb 2006 Revisions received: 28 Feb 2006 Accepted: 11 Mar 2006 Published: 7 Apr 2006 Critical Care 2006, 10:R55 (doi:10.1186/cc4887) This article is online at: /content/10/2/R55 © 2006 Delaney et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Tracheostomy is one of the more commonly Results Seventeen RCTs involving 1,212 patients were performed procedures in critically ill patients yet the optimal included. Most PDTs used a multiple dilator technique and were method of performing tracheostomies in this population remains performed in the intensive care unit (ICU). The pooled odds ratio to be established. The aim of this study was to systematically (OR) for wound infection was 0.28 (95% confidence interval review and