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Hiccups, Hiccoughs, Singultus, and Diaphragmatic Disorders

July 14, 2011 by CrashMaster

 

Hiccups

I have a method which has worked about 90% of the time for me, including hiccoughs under anesthesia.   It has to do with knowing the course of the phrenic nerve.    I insert a suction tube into one and sometimes the second nostril.   I push it back to the back of the nasal pharynx and juggle it forcefully, but do not advance it into the oropharynx      Hiccoughs cease almost instantaneously,

(Mattox)

 

 

 

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