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Age-based prediction of uncuffed tracheal tube size in children to prevent inappropriately large tube selection: a retrospective analysis

BACKGROUND: This study aims to validate our previously reported prediction technique for uncuffed tracheal tube (TT) sizes in children younger than 2 years of age based on a calculated outer diameter (OD(Cal), mm) in each patient according to the regression equation OD(Cal) = 0.00223 × age (day) + 4...

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Autores principales: Hanamoto, Hiroshi, Maegawa, Hiroharu, Inoue, Mika, Oyamaguchi, Aiko, Kudo, Chiho, Niwa, Hitoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31390987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-019-0818-3