Endotracheal Repair of an Iatrogenic Tracheal Laceration in A 83-Year-Old Critically Ill Woman with Aspiration Pneumonitis and Sepsis
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C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Welter S, Cheufou D, Ehmann T, Kampe S, Scharmann P (2014) Endotracheal Repair of an Iatrogenic Tracheal Laceration in A 83-Year-Old Critically Ill Woman with Aspiration Pneumonitis and Sepsis .Int J Anesthetic Anesthesiol 1:015. doi.org/10.23937/23774630/1/3/1015 Received: November 01, 2014: Accepted: November 20, 2014: Published: November 24, 2014 Copyright: © 2014 Welter S. 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. Welter et al. Int J Anesthetic Anesthesiol 2014, 1:015
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