Pathogenesis of tracheal stenosis following tracheostomy with a cuffed tube: An experimental study in dogs

Pathogenesis of tracheal stenosis following tracheostomy with a cuffed tube. An experimental study in dogs.

Tracheal size following tracheostomy with cuffed tracheostomy tubes: an experimental study.

In view of the severe damage caused by unyielding, low residual volume cuffs, various modifications to the cuff of an intratracheal tube have been introduced. The merits of two low-pressure cuffs were assessed in an experimental study in dogs; both cuffs produced little visible damage to the tracheal wall in dogs intubated continuously over a two-week period. A modified technique of producing t...

Tracheal stricture secondary to cuffed tracheostomy tubes.

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A manometric study of the upper oesophagus in the dog following cuffed-tube tracheostomy.

Intraluminal oesophageal pressures were measured in dogs after tracheostomy and intubation with either uncuffed or cuffed tracheostomy tubes. Possible explanations for disordered swallowing following tracheostomy were found in those animals intubated with cuffed tracheostomy tubes: (a) Increased intraluminal pressures were measured in the oesophagus at the level of the cuffs. (b) Significantly ...

Tracheal stricture following tracheostomy.

Six cases of tracheal obstruction following tracheostomy are described in which surgical intervention was necessary. These occurred in a series of 104 tracheostomies. In adults the strictures have occurred at the site of pressure of the tracheostomy tube cuff. Management has been by excision of the stricture with end-to-end reconstruction. Tracheal narrowing in children has been of a different ...