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Review
. 2022 Apr;22(4):160-166.
doi: 10.1016/j.bjae.2021.11.010. Epub 2022 Feb 16.

Anaesthesia for airway stenting

N Barnwell  1 , M Lenihan  1
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Review

Anaesthesia for airway stenting

N Barnwell et al. BJA Educ. 2022 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: airway management; airway obstruction; anaesthesia; bronchoscopy; cardiac procedures; high-frequency jet ventilation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Tracheal stenting with metallic stent. (A) Severe extrinsic compression of the trachea from advanced oesophageal cancer. (B) Appearances after placement of an uncovered metallic stent. Image reproduced from Nagano and colleagues (article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence).
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