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<p><b>Tracheal intubation</b>, usually simply referred to as <b><a href="page.php?w=intubation">intubation</a></b>, is the placement of a flexible plastic <a href="page.php?w=catheter">tube</a> into the <a href="page.php?w=vertebrate_trachea">trachea</a> (windpipe) to maintain an open <a href="page.php?w=airway">airway</a> or to serve as a conduit through which to administer certain drugs. It is frequently performed in critically injured, ill, or anesthetized patients to facilitate <a href="page.php?w=Ventilation_%28physiology%29">ventilation</a> of</p><p>
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