Airway management during percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
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Acute fatal haemorrhage during percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy.
Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is associated with a number of life-threatening complications. We present a case of massive and fatal arterial haemorrhage that occurred in the intensive care unit during an elective PDT on an 86-year-old woman following earlier evacuation of a traumatic subdural haematoma. An avulsed right subclavian artery was found at post mortem. Previous thyroid...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1994.tb04365.x