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By 1992, the laryngeal mask was approved for sale and being sold in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, India and the United States. The anaesthesia community had been calling for practice guidelines and in 1992 the ASA commissioned a task force to establish practice guidelines for managing difficult airway situations.
A cuffed endotracheal tube used in tracheal intubation Tracheal intubation , often simply referred to as intubation, is the placement of a flexible plastic or rubber endotracheal tube (ETT) into the trachea to maintain an open airway, allow for effective ventilation, protect the airway from aspiration (when a cuffed ETT is used), and to serve ...
An endotracheal tube is a specific type of tracheal tube that is nearly always inserted through the mouth (orotracheal) or nose (nasotracheal). It is a breathing conduit designed to be placed into the airway of critically injured, ill or anesthetized patients in order to perform mechanical positive pressure ventilation of the lungs and to ...
The laryngeal tube was licensed for use during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Japan in 2002, [2] and approved for use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration in 2003. [19] The European Resuscitation Council , in its 2005 guidelines for advanced life support (ALS), accepts its use as an alternate airway device for medical ...
They are administered through a face mask, laryngeal mask airway or tracheal tube connected to an anesthetic vaporiser and an anesthetic delivery system. Agents of significant contemporary clinical interest include volatile anesthetic agents such as isoflurane , sevoflurane and desflurane , as well as certain anesthetic gases such as nitrous ...
The most widely used route is orotracheal, in which an endotracheal tube is passed through the mouth and vocal apparatus into the trachea. In a nasotracheal procedure, an endotracheal tube is passed through the nose and vocal apparatus into the trachea. Alternatives to standard endotracheal tubes include laryngeal tube and combitube. [citation ...
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A dental syringe is a syringe for the injection of a local anesthetic. [25] It consists of a breech-loading syringe fitted with a sealed cartridge containing an anesthetic solution. In 1928, Bayer Dental developed, coined and produced a sealed cartridge system under the registered trademark Carpule ®. The current trademark owner is Kulzer ...