Goldilocks and endotracheal tube cuff pressure management: Not too high, not too low. Just right …

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Editorial

P D Gopalan. South Afr J Crit Care. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 15;35(1):10.7196/SAJCC.2019.v35i1.401.

doi: 10.7196/SAJCC.2019.v35i1.401. eCollection 2019.

¹ Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

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