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Bronchial cuff pressures of two tubes used in thoracic surgery
J G Kelley1, D M Gaba, J B Brodsky
1Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA.
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|April 1, 1992
Abstract:
The pressure/volume characteristics of the bronchial cuff of a polyvinylchloride (PVC) double-lumen endobronchial tube (DLT) was compared with the inflatable cuff of a bronchial blocker. At the volumes needed to seal a series of rigid model bronchi the PVC DLT bronchial cuff consistently generated significantly lower pressures than the bronchial blocker cuff.