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A new fatal complication of transtracheal aspiration
Scandinavian Journal of Respiratory Diseases
|August 1, 1978
Abstract:
A new, fatal complication of transtracheal aspiration is described in a cirrhotic patient. Death was related to gastrointestinal bleeding (rupture of oesophageal varices and Mallory-Weiss syndrome) due to unrestrainable coughing originating from transtracheal aspiration.