TY - JOUR T1 - Routine chest <em>x</em> rays following bronchoscopy guided percutaneous dilational tracheostomy JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 493 LP - 494 DO - 10.1136/emj.2007.050526 VL - 24 IS - 7 AU - Souvik Das AU - Mick Jennings Y1 - 2007/07/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/24/7/493.abstract N2 - A short cut review was carried out to establish whether routine chest x rays are required following bronchoscopy guided percutaneous dilational tracheostomy (PDT). A total of 393 citations were reviewed of which six answered the three part question. The clinical bottom line is that at present there is no clinical evidence to support routine postprocedure chest x ray following bronchoscopy guided percutaneous dilatianal tracheostomy. ER -