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You are called to the emergency room (ER). A 19-year-old male (1.6 m and 63 kg) is complaining that he had over half a cup of acute bright red hemoptysis from his tracheostomy site in the last hour. The patient has a 3-day history of blood-tinged sputum from the tracheostomy site. He is in remission from a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for which he has received chemotherapy and radiation with good effect. He had required a tracheostomy because of severe swelling of face and neck with acute airway obstruction. A computed tomography angiography (CTA) of the neck and chest has been done while in the ER, and is negative for any active bleeding.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2013). Case 82: Hemoptysis from a 2-Month Tracheostomy. In: Near Misses in Pediatric Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7040-3_82
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