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Severed pilot balloon, separated from the tubing of a cuffed endotracheal tube.
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Anesthesiologists' monitors were placed. Anesthesia was induced with propofol and maintained with sevoflurane, dexmedetomidine, and hydromorphone. Anesthetic care was uneventful until shortly before the end of the procedure when during the change of wound dressing on the face, the pilot balloon for the size 5.5 endotracheal tube in situ was inadvertently cut off (Figure 1).