ICU Medical‘s Smiths Medical today announced that it warned of a potential issue with certain sizes of its endotracheal tubes. The company issued an urgent medical device correction to notify ...

All intubations were performed using sterile, single-use, uniform internal diameter, plastic endotracheal tubes (Mallinckrodt Medical, Athlone, Ireland) under direct laryngoscopy. Only the first ...

and 200 mm Hg in endotracheal tubes of internal diameter 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 mm. For each combination, six suction episodes were performed at 6-s intervals.

Randomisation will be done in a 1:1 allocation ratio, stratified by size of the endotracheal tube and duration of invasive mechanical ventilation. Although we will examine all clinical outcomes ...

This study investigates the effects of thermal injury and endotracheal tube (ETT) placement on the airway microbiome and inflammatory response. A secondary aim is to assess the impact of localized ...