The Univent tube for single-lung ventilation in paediatric patients.
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.
Hammer
G B
GB
Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305, USA.
Brodsky
J B
JB
Redpath
J H
JH
Cannon
W B
WB
D001980:Bronchi; D002648:Child; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007440:Intubation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014741:Video Recording