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Figure 6. Burn wounds of the patient during treatment course; poly vinyl chloride tracheostomy tube is replaced with metallic tube

Figure 7. Small remaining wounds; tracheostomy tube is removed

CONCLUSION
Cervical splinting in neck burn patients with tracheostomy is necessary but difficult. The innovative
modification of hard cervical collar proposed in our case report can be a solution to overcome this difficulty.

DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributions
Concept and design: Gupta S, Chittoria RK
Data acquisition and analysis, manuscript preparation: Gupta S, Aggarwal A

Critical revision and finalizing of the manuscript: Chittoria RK, Subbarao E, Reddy KS, ChavanV, Aggarwal

A,Reddy CL
Availability of data and materials
The data were strictly obtained from medical records according to the privacy policy and ethics code of our
institute.

Financial support and sponsorship
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research.

Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.