Erschienen in:
11.01.2016 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
Ultrasound imaging of saline-filled endotracheal tube cuff for accurate repositioning of tube during percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
verfasst von:
Kannapur Anand Shankar, Nakra Monish, R. Ramprasad, Srivastava Vikas
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 8/2016
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Excerpt
The endotracheal tube (ETT) must be repositioned accurately prior to percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT). This involves withdrawal of the ETT to avoid complications and procedural difficulties such as puncture of the ETT cuff, abutment of the needle against the ETT, and passage of the guidewire into the Murphy’s eye of the ETT. This is classically accomplished by either direct laryngoscopy or visualization using fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB). …