"Detachment of the carinal hook following endobronchial intubation with a double lumen tube"

"Detachment of the carinal hook following endobronchial intubation with a double lumen tube"

BACKGROUND Carinal hooks increases difficulty at endotracheal intubation. Amputation of the carinal hook during passage and malpositioning of the tube to the hook are some of the potential problems related with left-sided Carlens double lumen tube (DLT). This article reports an amputation of the hook during a difficult selective intubation and aimed at calling the attention to complications ass...

Left double-lumen tube with or without a carinal hook: A randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Left double-lumen tracheal tubes (DLTs), with or without a hook to engage the carina, remain the standard device for lung isolation during anaesthesia. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to compare these DLTs with and without a hook. DESIGN A randomised, controlled, single-blinded study. SETTING University hospital. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and eighty-four patients underg...

Title : Carinal hook in the right bronchial lumen after a double - lumen endotracheal intubation : a case report

Retrograde orotracheal intubation with a double-lumen tube.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Difficult airway management in thoracic surgeries is a peculiar subject due to the demands of monopulmonary ventilation with double-lumen tubes. Flexible bronchoscopy guidance is extremely important, but it is not always available. The objective of this report was to describe a case of retrograde selective orotracheal intubation in the absence of specific endoscopy equ...

The use of the Clarus Video System for double-lumen endobronchial tube intubation in a patient with a difficult airway

Corresponding author: Jie Ae Kim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, 50, Ilwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3410-0363, Fax: 82-2-3410-6626, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3...