Articles: intubation.
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The advisability of prolonged oral or nasotracheal intubation is of continuing concern to physicians caring for patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilatory assistance. Currently, in many health care centers, prolonged intubation is defined as being in excess of seven days. We treated a patient who required mechanical ventilatory assistance and in whom oral endotracheal intubation was maintained for two months without significant pathologic sequelae.
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Vestn. Khir. Im. I. I. Grek. · Jul 1979
[New method of "shunt-respiration" in the resection of the thoracic trachea].
A method of intubation of the terminal portion of the inferior lobular bronchus through the lung tissue in resection of the thoracic portion of the trachea is described. The method of "shunt-respiration" was used in experiment.