School of Medicine - LSU Health New Orleans

All hospitals should have a predefined plan for how they will respond to the patient with a difficult airway such as tracheostomy tube dislodgement, premature extubation, or airway compromise due to neck surgery resulting in edema or hematoma (anterior cervical fusions, thyroidectomy / parathyroidectomy, carotid endarterectomy, head & neck ... ................
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