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Bobbi Kristina Brown has been taken off her ventilator and her breathing tube removed as her condition remains unchanged at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to a family source.

USA Today reports that the 21-year-old has been given a tracheotomy to help her continue to breathe. The decision to remove her tube does not mean her family has made a decision about her life support, the source told the newspaper. 

Family on Thursday said Brown's condition is 'still critical' and that the surgical procedure - which opens an airway into the trachea through the neck - was a normal one for coma patients.