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Monday, February 1, 2010

Fixing the Peditric Breathing Circuit:Any Ideas??

The pediatric breathing circuit needs to be absolutely stable and secure at all times.

Needless to say, this is because drag on the endotracheal tube positioned with a narrow margin for error in the child's airway can have disastrous consequences.

What do we all do in our day to day practice to fix the pediatric breathing circuit ?

Here is a link which has an innovative answer!

http://medind.nic.in/iad/t08/i6/iadt08i6p599.pdf



Ashish K. Khanna MD
Posted by Ashish.K Khanna MD at 12:35 PM

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