A low-volume, low-pressure tracheal tube cuff reduces pulmonary aspiration

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 632-639

  Young, Peter J ^a   Pakeerathan, Sivarajasingham ^a   Blunt, Mark C ^a   Subramanya, Sriharsha ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspiration pneumonia; Cuff; Tracheal tube; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG ASPIRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STAINING; SWALLOWING; SWINE; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CROSS INFECTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SWINE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 33644598324     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000201406.57821.5B     Document Type: Article

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