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Use of cuffed endotracheal tubes in pediatric anesthesia

Airway Anesthesia Intubation Pediatric anesthesia
Modern cuffed endotracheal tubes are a superior airway device for children and neonates, offering better ventilation mechanics, fewer tube changes, and fewer short-term respiratory complications, with no clinically significant downside.
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- Comment
  
  Cuffed tracheal tubes: guilty now proven innocent.
  
  Anaesthesia. 2019 Sep 1; 74 (9): 1186-1190.
- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  Cuffed vs. uncuffed tracheal tubes in children: a randomised controlled trial comparing leak, tidal volume and complications.
  
  Anaesthesia. 2018 Feb 1; 73 (2): 160-168.
  
  Cuffed paediatric endotracheal tubes improve ventilation and reduce peri-operative respiratory complications in children undergoing elective general anaesthesia.
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- Article
  
  Work of breathing for cuffed and uncuffed pediatric endotracheal tubes in an in vitro lung model setting.
  
  Paediatr Anaesth. 2018 Sep 1; 28 (9): 780-787.
  
  Although cuffed paediatric endotracheal tubes increase work-of-breathing and inspiratory pressures, this is easily compensated for by pressure support ventilation with automatic tube compensation, and so has limited clinical significance.
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