The anaesthetic management of patients with bronchopleural fistula with the Robertshaw double-lumen tube.
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A method of anaesthesia for the repair of bronchopleural fistulae is described which involves the use of the Robertshaw double-lumen tube. Our experience with its use on twenty occasions is described, and in eleven of them the method was completely successful. In none of the other nine cases were the difficulties encountered such as to render the technique unsafe. Both from the point of view of safety and for the patient's comfort, general anaesthesia for intubation was found to be preferable.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British journal of anaesthesia
دوره 37 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1965