Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Oct 2007
Percutaneous transtracheal emergency ventilation with a self-made device in an animal model.
Special equipment for emergency percutaneous transtracheal ventilation is often not immediately available. We used a self-made device consisting of a three-way stopcock connected between a G-15 transtracheal airway catheter and an oxygen supply in a simulated 'cannot intubate, cannot ventilate' scenario and tested the hypothesis that the effectiveness of the device depends on the body weight of the experimental animals. ⋯ Adequate oxygenation could be provided by jet-like transtracheal ventilation with a simple self-made device using easily available materials. Sufficient ventilation depends on the body weight of the animals.