Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
This is a case report of a 28-year-old male patient with severe traumatic brain injury and Glasgow coma scale score = 8: E2 M5 V T , who required a tracheotomy for airway protection. On day 5, a surgical tracheotomy was performed with size 8 tracheotomy tube (TT). On the 4 th day of post-tracheostom...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2013-04-01
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| Series: | Avicenna Journal of Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/2231-0770.114125 |