Tracheostomy Decannulation; A Catch-22 for Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries
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Tracheostomy Decannulation; A Catch-22 for Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries
Copyright: © 2013 Qureshi AZ. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Although tracheostomy is considered to be the most common surgical procedure performed on critically ill patients, there is no gene...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2329-9096
DOI: 10.4172/2329-9096.1000112