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An ingenious mucus trap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Katherine Harrop-griffiths  and
Neil R. McLean
Katherine Harrop-griffiths
Affiliation:
London
Neil R. McLean*
Affiliation:
London
*
Neil McLan, B.Sc., F.R.C.S., Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JJ.
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Summary

This brief report describes how, with commendable insight, a patient recently treated in our Unit adopted a very simple device to collect the excess mucus issuing from his tracheostomy tube.

Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 102 , Issue 3 , March 1988 , pp. 291 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1988

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