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Comment
. 2020;52(3):261-262.
doi: 10.5114/ait.2020.97604.

Ultrasound completes but does not replace bronchoscopy in monitoring percutaneous tracheotomy

Dariusz Maciejewski  1
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Ultrasound completes but does not replace bronchoscopy in monitoring percutaneous tracheotomy

Dariusz Maciejewski. Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther. 2020.
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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
A two-handed method of shaping the stoma at low tracheal wall compliance during tracheotomy according to Griggs et al.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Intratracheal bronchoscopic monitoring of the stoma site and size
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