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To the Editor: I should like to call attention to an error in Case 46-1992 (Nov. 19 issue)¹. The patient, a middle-aged woman with severe tracheal distortion, was described as having undergone placement of "a 6-French pediatric cuffed endotracheal tube" before coronary-artery bypass surgery. This is extremely unlikely, since a 6-French endotracheal tube has an external diameter of less than 2 mm and is not commercially available. Its small internal diameter (less than 1.5 mm) would have greatly increased resistance to airflow; perioperative ventilation and oxygenation would have been almost impossible². It is more likely that a 6.0 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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