Cuff palpation does not differentiate oesophageal from tracheal placement of tracheal tubes

Comparison of tracheal tube cuff pressure with two techniques: fixed volume versus pilot balloon palpation

Introduction: Filling tracheal tube cuff (TTC) after intubation is necessary to provide a safe airway in intubated patients. On the other hand, excessive increase or decrease in the pressure of TTC's balloon leads into the dangerous complications such as necrosis and/or aspiration. Accordingly, in the present study, we tried to evaluate the most two common fixed volume and pilot balloon palpita...

Bacterial Colonization in Tracheal Tubes of ICU Patients

  Background and Objectives: Nosocomial infections are one of the most important worldwide health and increased patients hospital stay, therapeutic problem and mortality rate. This study was designed to determine the frequency of microorganisms isolated from tracheal tube in patients admitted to ICU Shaheed Mostafa Khomeini Hospital Tehran, Iran, from 2001-2005. Patients and Methods: In this ...

Tracheal stricture secondary to cuffed tracheostomy tubes.

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Tracheal Agenesis with Tracheo-oesophageal Fistula.

Tracheal Agenesis (TA) presents with respiratory distress at birth. Diagnosis requires recognition of clinical signs in newborns like failure of endotracheal intubation, respiratory distress with absent air entry over both side of chest and inaudible cry. We describe a TA Floyd Type I with a Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula (TOF) without other congenital malformations.

The oesophageal tracheal combitube for difficult intubation.