A Technique of Placing Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes through in Situ Paediatric Laryngeal Mask Airways

Uncuffed versus Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes

SPA-APA Meeting San Francisco 2007 1 Uncuffed versus Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes Markus Weiss, MD, Zurich, Switzerland During the last five decades, uncuffed tracheal tubes were recommended for routine use in children aged below 8 years. Cuffed tracheal tubes in patients younger than 8 years of age were only exceptionally used for special indications. In the last 10 years a change in clinical pra...

Cuffed versus uncuffed pediatric endotracheal tubes.

To the Editor: Textbooks ascribe negligible risk to standard noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) devices.1,2 We report a complication from an appropriately placed cuff. Consent for publication was obtained in conformance with institutional publication consent guidelines. The cuff was placed on an athletic male and used during supine induction, then immediately inactivated after radial arterial ca...

Cuffed endotracheal tubes are okay for neonates.

(Kimberly-Clark, Roswell, GA) endotracheal tube (ETT) in neonates. They reported that on three neonates who after being intubated with these cuffed ETTs, each had significant postoperative stridor. Most interesting to me was that in each of the cases, no attempt was made to establish whether there was a functional leak at ventilation pressures above 20 cm H2O after intubation. In two of these c...

A review of cuffed vs uncuffed endotracheal tubes in children

Background The use of cuffed endotracheal tubes in paediatric patients is still a controversial topic. This paper aims to investigate whether cuffed or uncuffed tubes should be used in children under the age of 8 based on the literature that is currently available on this topic. Currently there are no guidelines on this topic. Methods The literature review has been taken in consideration Result...

Guide Wire J-Tip Technique for Easy Exchange of In Situ Endotracheal Tubes