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Maintenance of tracheal tube cuff pressure: where are the limits?

Continuous control of tracheal tube cuff inflation using a pneumatic device resulted in severe tracheal wall damage in ventilated piglets. This damage was similar in piglets managed with manual control of cuff inflation. The periodic hyperinflation of the tube cuff used in both groups of this study...

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Autores principales: Ferrer, Miquel, Torres, Antoni
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18279534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc6194