Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations

Tracheal tube introducers (TTIs) are a useful aid to a conventional laryngoscopy-intubation method of upper airway access in adults. However, even when TTIs are used, successful tracheal intubation is not guaranteed. Apart from suboptimal practice proficiency and unavailability of the complete reper...

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Autores principales: Dutta, Amitabh, Gupta, Manish, Choudhary, Prabhat Kumar, Sood, Jayashree
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29643559
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_639_17
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Gupta, Manish
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description Tracheal tube introducers (TTIs) are a useful aid to a conventional laryngoscopy-intubation method of upper airway access in adults. However, even when TTIs are used, successful tracheal intubation is not guaranteed. Apart from suboptimal practice proficiency and unavailability of the complete repertoire of TTI, the physical attributes of the TTI have a role to play. Our report on the management of two cases highlights the importance of selecting a TTI with appropriate angled tip characteristics to facilitate successful guided intubation.
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spelling pubmed-58813272018-04-11 Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations Dutta, Amitabh Gupta, Manish Choudhary, Prabhat Kumar Sood, Jayashree Indian J Anaesth Case Report Tracheal tube introducers (TTIs) are a useful aid to a conventional laryngoscopy-intubation method of upper airway access in adults. However, even when TTIs are used, successful tracheal intubation is not guaranteed. Apart from suboptimal practice proficiency and unavailability of the complete repertoire of TTI, the physical attributes of the TTI have a role to play. Our report on the management of two cases highlights the importance of selecting a TTI with appropriate angled tip characteristics to facilitate successful guided intubation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5881327/ /pubmed/29643559 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_639_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations
title Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations
title_full Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations
title_fullStr Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations
title_full_unstemmed Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations
title_short Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations
title_sort appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29643559
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_639_17
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