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You, as the anesthesiologist on call, are called to the ICU where a 68-year-old woman (170 lbs 5′7″) is breathing spontaneously through a percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy [1]. The latter has been performed 3 days ago. Her Glasgow coma scale is 8. Her airway is considered normal and she has no dentition.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2017). Case 95: A Percutaneous Tracheostomy. In: Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71467-7_95
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