Correspondence
Considerable tracheal mucosal damage by high volume, low pressure cuffs in piglets
First published: 07 July 2014
No abstract is available for this article.
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Figure S1. A Microcuff tube of 3.5 mm ID in an artificial trachea of 6.5 mm ID (i.e., a tube for a one-year-old infant in the trachea of a 4-years-old child). |
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