Cuffed endotracheal tubes in children reduce sevoflurane and medical gas consumption and related costs
Autor: | Andreas C. Gerber, Achim Schmitz, Christian Keller, B. Salgo, S. Eschertzhuber, W. Roth, A. Frotzler, Markus Weiss |
---|---|
Rok vydání: | 2010 |
Předmět: | |
Zdroj: | Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica. 54:855-858 |
ISSN: | 1399-6576 0001-5172 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2010.02261.x |
Popis: | Background: This study aims to evaluate sevoflurane and anaesthetic gas consumption using uncuffed vs. cuffed endotracheal tubes (ETT) in paediatric surgical patients. Methods: Uncuffed or cuffed ETT were used in paediatric patients (newborn to 5 years) undergoing elective surgery in a randomized order. Duration of assessment, lowest possible fresh gas flow (minimal allowed FGF: 0.5 l/min) and sevoflurane concentrations used were recorded. Consumption and costs for sevoflurane and medical gases were calculated. Results: Seventy children (35 uncuffed ETT/35 cuffed ETT), aged 1.73 (0.01–4.80) years, were enrolled. No significant differences in patient characteristics, study period and sevoflurane concentrations used were found between the two groups. Lowest possible FGF was significantly lower in the cuffed ETT group [1.0 (0.5–1.0) l/min] than in the uncuffed ETT group [2.0 (0.5–4.3) l/min], P |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Externí odkaz: |