Notice of retraction

IOS Press has retracted the following article from its online content:

[Technology and Health Care, Pre-press, 1-5]

DOI: 10.3233/THC-213537

The clinical application of an innovative tracheotomy fixation belt in critically ill patients

Gui-Li Zhanga, Zhi-Jing Shib, Ping Haoa,*, Yun-Mei Shib, Cheng-Ying Guib and Lei Xub

a Department of Nursing, Putuo Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

b Department of SICU, Putuo Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

The retraction was requested by the corresponding author due to an authorship dispute with the patent holder of the device used in the research. All authors signed a document supporting the retraction.

The article has appeared briefly (for approximately two months) in the pre-press section of the journal. The publisher has removed the article from this section completely.