Endotracheal tubes (ETTs) are crucial medical devices used to maintain airway patency in patients requiring mechanical ventilation. However, their use is associated with a significant risk of ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP ... and may reduce biofilm formation on and bacterial adherence to the endotracheal tube. Kollef and colleagues (2008) conducted a prospective, randomized ...

and CASS endotracheal tube for patients requiring mechanical ventilation, according to the interventional phases (Figure 1). We adjusted a segmented regression model that allowed us to analyze a ...

Next, connect the endotracheal tube to an inhalation anesthesia machine ... to protect the lungs from over-inflation. Adequate ventilation is indicated by normal-looking, pink-colored mucous ...

Medical workers performing intubations—i.e. inserting a tube into a patient’s trachea so they can be connected to a ventilator ... of 2 simulations of endotracheal intubation using a ...