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Case Reports
Removal of obstructing blood clot from the lower airway: an alternative suction technique.
- A R Bodenham.
- Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK. andyb@ulth.northy.nhs.uk
- Anaesthesia. 2002 Jan 1; 57 (1): 40-3.
AbstractClotted blood or organised thrombus in the lower airway may present clinicians with life-threatening airway obstruction or pulmonary collapse. An alternative suction technique is described, which applies suction directly to a tracheal tube.
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