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Securing endotracheal tubes: does NeoBar availability improve tube position?

Tammy Lee Brinsmead¹, Mark William Davies

¹Grantley Stable Neonatal Unit, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. tammybrinsmead@yahoo.com.au

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

|March 27, 2010

Summary

The NeoBar device did not significantly improve neonatal endotracheal tube (ETT) positioning compared to tape alone. Both methods resulted in less than two-thirds of ETTs in acceptable positions, with shifts towards higher and lower placements respectively.

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Area of Science:

Neonatal care
Medical device evaluation
Respiratory support

Background:

Proper endotracheal tube (ETT) placement is critical for effective ventilation in neonates.
Suboptimal ETT positioning can lead to complications such as airway injury or inadequate gas exchange.
The NeoBar is a device designed to improve ETT security and positioning.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the effectiveness of the NeoBar in improving neonatal endotracheal tube (ETT) tip position.
To compare ETT positioning when secured with the NeoBar versus traditional tape.

Main Methods:

Retrospective study comparing two cohorts of intubated neonates.
ETT position assessed subjectively (very high, high, OK, low, very low) and objectively (vertebral body, ETT-tip-to-T1 distance).
Cohorts divided into 'Tape-only' and 'NeoBar' periods.

Main Results:

No significant difference in the proportion of 'OK' ETT positions between Tape-only (58.2%) and NeoBar (58.3%) periods (P=1.0).
Significantly more very high ETTs in the NeoBar period and more low/very low ETTs in the Tape-only period (P=0.011).
Trends in ETT-tip-to-T1 distance were not statistically significant (P=0.079).

Conclusions:

Less than two-thirds of ETTs were in acceptable positions with both methods.
The NeoBar period showed a trend towards higher ETT placements, while the Tape-only period trended towards lower placements.
Further research is needed to correlate observed ETT position differences with clinical outcomes.