Point-of-care airway US: a valuable tool in the management of occult over the cuff bleeding and secretions

Affiliations

• ¹ Post-Surgical and Transplant Intensive Care Unit, Department of Digestive, Hepatic and Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Via Giuseppe Massarenti, 9, Bologna, Italy. amedeo.bianchini@hotmail.it.
• ² UOC Medicina ad Indirizzo Metabolico Nutrizionale. Policlinico di Modena, AOU Modena, Via del Pozzo, 71, Modena, Italy.
• ³ Anesthesiology and pain therapy, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Massarenti, 9, Bologna, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Massarenti, 9, Bologna, Italy.
• ⁵ Post-Surgical and Transplant Intensive Care Unit, Department of Digestive, Hepatic and Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Via Giuseppe Massarenti, 9, Bologna, Italy.