Figure 67-9 Complications of laser airway surgery. Pneumothorax was relatively common with jet ventilation, but potentially lethal airway fires occurred with endotracheal intubation. ETT, endotracheal tube. (Data from Cozine K, Stone JG, Shulman, et al: Ventilatory complications of carbon dioxide laser laryngeal surgery. J Clin Anesth 3:20, 1991.)


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