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The Univent tube for single‐lung ventilation in paediatric patients
Author(s) -
HAMMER G.,
BRODSKY J.,
REDPATH J.,
CAN W.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1998.00691.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intubation , tube (container) , surgery , ventilation (architecture) , anesthesia , mechanical engineering , engineering
A Univent bronchial blocker tube was used in a ten‐year‐old patient undergoing videothoracoscopy. Paediatric Univent tubes offer an alternative to balloon‐tipped catheters for providing single‐lung ventilation (SLV) in children too small for adult size double‐lumen tubes.