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Extubation of the patient after a difficult intubation
1Department of Anesthesiology, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts 02118, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 1, 1998
Abstract:
A case of a difficult intubation in a heavy smoker requiring reoperative coronary artery bypass grafting is presented. A technique is described to extubate patients with marginal pulmonary function and a difficult intubation using airway exchange catheters.