Cuffed tracheal tubes in children: Past, present and future

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-82

  Weiss, Markus ^a   Dullenkopf, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Limmattalspital ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Airway; Complications; Cuff pressure; Pediatric; Tracheal cuff; Tubes

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN;

ANATOMY; CHILD; CHILD CARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; MANOMETER; MATERIALS TESTING; PERFORMANCE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CHILD; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MANOMETRY; PEDIATRICS; POLYMERS; POLYURETHANES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TRACHEA;

EID: 33846478708     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.4.1.73     Document Type: Review

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