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01-04-2019 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Post-intubation tracheal laceration

Authors: Gustavo Nobre de Jesus, Francisco Freitas, Susana M. Fernandes, António Alvarez

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2019

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Post-intubation tracheal laceration (PITL) is an extremely rare entity (0.005% of entubations) with very high mortality and morbidity. Treatment can be conservative, namely for lacerations below 3 cm, surgical or endoscopic, according to size and location of the laceration and ventilatory efficiency. There is no clear indication for one of these approaches and it depends on local expertise. …

Title: Post-intubation tracheal laceration
Authors: Gustavo Nobre de Jesus
Francisco Freitas
Susana M. Fernandes
António Alvarez
Publication date: 01-04-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5450-z

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