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I have a method which has worked about 90% of the time for me, including hiccoughs under anesthesia.\u00a0\u00a0 It has to do with knowing the course of the phrenic nerve.\u00a0 \u00a0 I insert a suction tube into one and sometimes the second nostril.\u00a0\u00a0 I push it back to the back of the nasal pharynx and juggle it forcefully, but do not advance it into the oropharynx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hiccoughs cease almost instantaneously,<\/p>\n
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