New-style Univent with a light source on the blocker.
The author has introduced a new-style "endotracheal tube with a movable blocker" which has a transillumination light source on the front-most portion of the blocker. This device may obviate the need for bronchoscopic guidance of the blocker.
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Department of Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan.
D020680:Bronchoscopes; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000295:instrumentation; D014172:Transillumination / Q000295:instrumentation*