Intensive Care Medicine
New data from National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute illuminate research in intensive care medicine
Published in Health Risk Factor Week, August 12th, 2008
"We designed a new endotracheal tube (ETT) cuff that does not form the folds that cause leakage of colonized subglottic secretions upon inflation within the trachea: a standard high-volume low-pressure cuff was draped with a second, highly elastic cuff made of a low-protein guayule natural latex rubber with 0.5 ml gel between the cuffs. We compared this prototype ETT cuff with four commercially available ETTs for efficacy in the prevention of fluid leakage across the cuff," scientists in the United States report.
"In vitro study. We compared fluid leakage in our prototype cuff with that in four commercially available ETTs. Three cylindrical glass tubes 16, 20, and 22 mm...
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