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A complication of cricothyroid "minitracheostomy"--oesophageal perforation
1Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Intensive Care Medicine
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Two patients suffered perforation of the oesophagus during attempted placement of a cricothyroid minitracheostomy. We discuss the probable mechanisms and means of preventing such a recurrence.