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vol. 5 no. 1
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- Received April 2, 2020
- Accepted April 2, 2020
- Published online April 15, 2020.
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- Christopher P Michetti1,
- Clay Cothren Burlew2,
- Eileen M Bulger3,
- Kimberly A Davis4,
- David A Spain5
- the Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Committees of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- 1 Department of Surgery, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
- 2 Department of Surgery, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, USA
- 3 Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
- 4 Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- 5 Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Correspondence to Dr Christopher P Michetti; Christopher.Michetti{at}inova.org
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- Risks to providers during tracheostomy
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- The high-risk surgical airway
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