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Inspection of the lacerated tracheal tube following the safe emergence and extubation of our patient. Note the widened aperture during bending of the tracheal tube and the severed pilot balloon tubing.
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Inspection of the TT revealed a cut across half of the tube's diameter; the pilot balloon tubing had been severed completely (Figure 1).