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01.03.2010 | Poster presentation
Do endotracheal tubes prevent microaspiration?
verfasst von:
P Lichtenthal, U Borg, D Maul
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 1/2010
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Excerpt
For decades it was assumed that cuffed endotracheal tubes prevented aspiration. However, currently used cuffed tubes do not prevent the development of post-intubation pulmonary complications caused by microaspiration [
1,
2]. A new taper-shaped cuffed tube (TaperGuard (TG)) has recently been introduced. The aim of this study was to compare this tube with a traditional tube (Hi-Lo (HL)) in an aspiration pig model. …