Custom-made tracheostomy tube to relieve lower tracheal obstruction in infants and young children.
Two case histories are presented in which special difficulties were encountered in the management of lower tracheal obstruction in children. These problems were successfully overcome by the use of a tracheostomy tube which was custom-made from a standard thin wall polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube sufficiently long to relieve this obstruction.
D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D011143:Polyvinyl Chloride; D014140:Tracheotomy / Q000295:instrumentation*
D011143:Polyvinyl Chloride