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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 100(5):728-729; doi:10.1093/bja/aen065
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New use of a laryngectomy tube for management of mechanical ventilation in patients with anatomical abnormalities

T. Shimizu, T. Mizutani*, S. Takahashi, T. Hoshi and M. Tanaka

Tsukuba, Japan

* E-mail: mizutani@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

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Editor—It is sometimes difficult to manage airways in morbidly obese patients with a thick neck using standard tracheostomy tubes. So far, only a few techniques using tracheostomy tubes or tracheal tubes to manage artificial airways have been reported.1–3 We report successful use of reinforced laryngectomy tubes (LaryngoFlex®, Willy Rusch, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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