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- Title
Variables affecting leakage past endotracheal tube cuffs: a bench study.
- Authors
Pitts, Renée; Fisher, Daniel; Sulemanji, Demet; Kratohvil, Joseph; Jiang, Yandong; Kacmarek, Robert
- Abstract
Leakage of oral secretions past endotracheal tubes (ETT) has been implicated in ventilator associated pneumonia. The aim of this bench study was to compare the ability of current generation ETT cuffs to prevent fluid leakage and to determine the specific mechanical ventilator settings that affect movement of fluid across an inflated ETT cuff.
- Publication
Intensive care medicine, 2010, Vol 36, Issue 12, p2066
- ISSN
1432-1238
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-010-2048-5