Endotracheal intubation (ETT) is the gold standard for airway management and one of most commonly performed procedure. Improper selection endotracheal tube it results in complications like, inadequate ventilation, poor reliability end-tidal gas monitoring, leakage anaesthetic gases into operating room environment enhanced risk aspiration. The conventional age-based formulas doesn’t reflect actu...

We report a 28-week gestation premature infant with rare complication of endotracheal intubation. A piece from the plastic sheath of the stylet was retrieved inside the endotracheal tube after extubation.

PURPOSE To examine the history of pediatric endotracheal intubation and the issues surrounding the change from uncuffed endotracheal tubes to cuffed endotracheal tubes, including pediatric airway anatomy, endotracheal tube design, complications, and safety concerns. METHOD Review of the literature. CONCLUSIONS Although the use of cuffed endotracheal tubes in infants and children remains a t...

Background: This study investigated the feasibility of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) performed under two-lung ventilation (TLV) and single-lumen endotracheal tube (SLET) intubation in patients with spontaneous pneumothorax.

Conventional endotracheal tubes have high intrinsic resistive properties due to their high outer-to-inner diameter ratio. This has significant disadvantages in the treatment of the small neonatal or pediatric patient as work of breathing increases with decreasing internal radius. Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including suctioning, may be very difficult in patients with small endotrache...

Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the frequency of complications of endotracheal intubation (ETI) in neonates. Methods The newborns that were admitted and needed urgent or semi-urgent intubation were enrolled in this study over a 1 year period. Route for intubation in all cases were orotracheal. Cases were not routinely sedated or paralyzed. The patients were clinically and rad...

arterial CO2 values. Ten white rabbits (mean weight, 2.00±0.2 [SD] kg) underwent tracheostomy under anesthesia with pentobarbital. The trachea was intubated with an endotracheal tube with a second lumen for sampling respiratory gas at the distal tip. Capuometrywas performed through the lumen (CO,d) and the proximal end of the endotracheal tube (CO p). The internal carotid artery was cannulated ...

In cases of multiple facial trauma and other specific cases, the anesthesiologist may be asked to convert an oral endotracheal tube to a nasal endotracheal tube or vice versa. Conventionally, the patient is simply extubated and the endotracheal tube is re-inserted along either the oral or nasal route. However, the task of airway management can become difficult due to surgical trauma or worsenin...

microbial biofilms has remained a major complication of tracheal intubation in patients requiring ventilator equipment. the aim of this study was to characterize bacterial and fungal biofilms in endotracheal tubes from intensive care unit (icu) patients in ahwaz, iran. in this cross-sectional descriptive study, patients admitted to icu that required mechanical ventilation for at least 24 hours ...