Double-Lumen Endotracheal Tube-Predicting Insertion Depth and Tube Size Based on Patient's Chest X-ray Image Data and 4 Other Body Parameters.

ABSTRACT: In thoracic surgery, the double lumen endotracheal tube (DLT) is used for differential ventilation of the lung. DLT allows lung collapse on the surgical side that requires access to the thoracic and mediastinal areas. DLT placement for a given patient depends on two settings: a tube of the correct size (or 'size') and to the correct insertion depth (or 'depth'). Incorrect DLT placements cause oxygen desaturation or carbon dioxide retention in the patient, with possible surgical failure. No guideline on these settings is currently available for anesthesiologists, except for the aid by bronchoscopy. In this study, we aimed to predict DLT 'depths' and 'sizes' applied earlier on a group of patients (n = 231) using a computer modeling approach. First, for these patients we retrospectively deter

SUBMITTER: Chang TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9777797 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature