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Comparative Study
Improving the shape and compliance characteristics of a high-volume, low-pressure cuff improves tracheal seal.
- P J Young and M C Blunt.
- Intensive Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, UK.
- Br J Anaesth. 1999 Dec 1; 83 (6): 887-9.
AbstractA prototype design of a compliant latex, high-volume, low-pressure cuffed tracheal tube cuff (CHVLP) was compared with the Mallinckrodt Hi-Lo, Sheridan preformed and Portex Profile high-volume, low-pressure (HVLP) cuffed tracheal tubes for leakage of dye placed above the cuff in a benchtop mechanical ventilation model and in five isolated pig tracheas. There was no leakage in the ventilation model or in the pig tracheas with the prototype CHVLP. There was rapid leakage in the ventilation model and in all the pig tracheas for the Mallinckrodt Hi-Lo, the Sheridan preformed and the Portex Profile cuffs. This benchtop study suggests that improved HVLP cuff compliance characteristics may be beneficial in the prevention of leakage of fluid to the lungs known to occur with HVLP cuffs.
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