A new endobronchial tube for broncho-pleural fistula repair.

IN anaesthesia for the surgery of pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchial blocking appears to be the exceptional rather than the usual procedure. This is, no doubt, largely due to the much improved preoperative treatment nowadays of patients with sputum. Moreover, there has not yet been published by those who practise bronchial blocking a convincing series to show that their cases have a lower collapse and spread rate than a series done under exactly similar conditions in the same hospital, but without the use of blockers. A decided advantage, of course, arises from doing a good deal of bronchial blocking, for when those cases come along which undoubtedly need it, one is wellpractised, and little tempted to try and do without it.