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BACKGROUND:High-volume low-pressure (HVLP) endotracheal tube (ETT) cuffs for critically ill patients often deflate during the course of mechanical ventilation. We performed an in-vitro study to comprehensively assess HVLP cuff deflation dynamics and potential preventive measures. METHODS:We evaluated 24-hour deflation of seven HVLP cuffs of cylindrical or tapered shape, and made of polyvinylchloride or polyurethane. Experiments were performed within a thermostated chamber set at 37 °C. In the first stage of experiments, the cuff pilot balloon valve was not manipulated. The cuff internal pressure was assessed hourly for 24 hours, via a linear position sensor which monitored cuff deflation displacements. Then, we re-evaluated cuff deflation of the worst-performing ETT cuffs with the cuff pilot balloon valve sealed. Finally, we inflated ETT cuffs within an artificial trachea to evaluate deflation dynamics during mechanical ventilation. RESULTS:Initial tests showed an exponential decrease in cuff internal pressure in five out of seven cuffs. Cuffs of cylindrical shape and made of polyurethane demonstrated the fastest deflation rates (P<0.050 vs. cuffs of conical shape and made of polyvinylchloride). When the cuff pilot balloon valve was not sealed, the internal cuff pressure deflation rate differed significantly among ETTs (P=0.005). Yet, upon sealing the cuff pilot balloon valve and during mechanical ventilation, cuff deflation rates decreased (P<0.050). CONCLUSIONS:In controlled in-vitro settings, ETT cuffs consistently deflate over time, and the cuff pilot balloon valve plays a central role in this occurrence. Deflation rate decreases when cuffs are inflated within a plastic artificial tracheal model and mechanical ventilation is activated.
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Minerva Anestesioljournal_title
Minerva anestesiologicaauthors
Marti JD,Li Bassi G,Isetta V,Lazaro MR,Aguilera-Xiol E,Comaru T,Battaglini D,Meli A,Ferrer M,Navajas D,Pelosi P,Chiumello D,Torres A,Farre Rdoi
10.23736/S0375-9393.19.13133-1subject
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2019-08-01 00:00:00pages
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85pub_type
杂志文章abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the incidence of colonization and infection by methicillin-resistant in PICU. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study during 2 years for the surveillance of nosocomial infections. SETTING:Four beds Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. PATIENTS:We studied two-hundred patients with duration of hospitalization ...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
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abstract：:The surgical treatment of cervico-medullary traumas is indicated, in unstable lesions, in large lesions of the mobile rachidic segment in the presence of neurological complications or following worsening of prior neurological symptomatology. The purpose of the operation is at least three-fold: to obtain alignment of v...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
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更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Intraoperative hemodynamic and respiratory data from one-year experience of orthotopic liver transplantation with veno-venous bypass (10 cases) were collected. Seven different phases of OLT was submitted to one way analysis of variance. Variability is due to degree and duration of liver disease. Basal conditions inclu...
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 评论,信件
doi：10.23736/S0375-9393.19.13586-9
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abstract：:The authors review the advantages and disadvantages of general and regional anesthesia in bad clinical conditions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of Blended Anesthesia (association of general anesthesia with a regional technique) in 25 patients belonging to ASA classes II-III-IV, undergoing sur...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
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更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:109 patients who suffered from an episode of acute respiratory failure, necessitated mechanical ventilation (MV) in a general Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and admitted to our Respiratory Intermediate Intensive Unit (RIIU), were retrospectively evaluated for outcome and weaning success. The patients, 69 +/- 9 years old, p...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
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更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:In living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), we evaluated if there was any difference in grafted kidney function according to the type of anesthetic used in the donor because some laboratory studies have demonstrated that volatile anesthetics at clinically relevant concentrations protect the kidneys agains...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Humoral immunity (immunoglobulins and C3) as well as nutritional conditions (serum albumin, transferrin) have been investigated in 23 patients in the acute phase after surgery and/or trauma. Immunoglobulin deficiency, well correlated with the severity of trauma, was observed in the most critically ill patients in the ...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
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更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An account is given of the employment of althesin as an induction and maintenance anaesthetic. It is free of the drawbacks observed with thiopentone induction, and has negligible haemodynamic and respiratory effects. Its association with leptophen permitted excellent analgesia at minimal leptophen doses, without secon...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
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更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Authors have controlled the validity of VQI to quantify pulmonary shunt (Qs/Qt). The survey involved (group A) patients who had undergone major surgery and (group B) patients hospitalized in ICU for cardiorespiratory failure. Four subgroups were identified in both the groups according to different values of SaO2. ...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this paper the Authors describe the anesthetic techniques used for abdominal surgery in a 19 year-old woman with "central-core disease". This uncommon congenital neuromuscular disorder is frequently related to malignant hyperthermia syndrome. Total intravenous anesthesia with the association propofol-fentanyl was w...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Multimodal pain management, combining analgesics with different mode of action in order to minimize occurrence of side-effects still providing safe and efficacious pain management after ambulatory surgery has become standard of care. The combined use of local anaesthesia in order to reduce noxious influx during the pr...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This year, the US Institute of Medicine has estimated that medical errors kill up to 98,000 Americans each year,1 a problem surpassing automobile fatalities. For patients on the medical ward, drug therapy is the primary intervention they are receiving yet medication errors occur in as many as 4% of inpatients.2 Althou...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
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更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Anaesthetic management in asthmatic patients has been focused on avoiding bronchoconstriction and inducing bronchodilation. However, the definition of asthma has changed over the past decade. Asthma has been defined as a clinical syndrome characterized by an inflammatory process that extends beyond the central airways...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on pregnant women undergoing cesarean delivery or elderly men scheduled for prostate brachytherapy have demonstrated the predictive value of heart rate variability (HRV) analysis for hypotension during spinal anesthesia. We conducted a prospective observational study to investigate if preoperative HR...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Authors report their clinical experience about the use of atracurium besylate in preventing succinylcholine-induced fasciculations and postoperative myalgias in fifty athletes (ASA class 1), submitted to arthroscopic meniscectomy. The patients were pretreated with atracurium 5 mg i.v. or saline solution in a doubl...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验,评审
doi：
更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The detection of tissue hypoxia and its correction is one of the aim of the hemodynamic monitoring. Classical hemodynamic variable often fail to achieve this goal. Lactate measurements may be a good indicator of tissue hypoxia. Selected review of the articles on lactate in critically ill patients. Tissue hypoxia is as...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To set up an index for the evaluation of type of interventions and procedures applied a prerequisite for the evaluation of appropriateness of ICU's activity. DESIGN:Observation prospective study. PATIENTS:2507 patients out of the 5030 enrolled in the cohort study. MEASUREMENTS:A cross-sectional assessment ...
journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica
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更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00
