Articles: intubation.
-
Rev Gastroenterol Mex · Oct 1979
[Is it necessary to routinely use nasogastric intubation and subhepatic (Penrose) drainage after an uncomplicated cholecystectomy?].
140 surgical patients were studied at the Navy Medical Center in Mexico City. All of them had a cholecystectomy performed. In addition, 29 patients were treated for hiatal hernia with troncular vagotomy, pyloroplasty and hiatal repair. 7 of them had a prophylactic appendectomy. ⋯ Group B received neither. Postoperative morbidity and hospitalization time less in Group B. It is suggested by the authors not to be use nasogastric intubation nor subhepatic drainage after elective cholecystectomy, although there are special circumstances where one or both procedures are indicated.
-
A simple apparatus and a method are described by which an exact end-point can be attained in inflating the bronchial cuff of a double-lumen tube, and accidental collapse of the cuff detected.