摘要:
A system (100) and method (308) for determining cuff rupture in a cuffed endotracheal tube device (102) introduced into the trachea of a subject, the system comprising: a pressure sensor configured for monitoring cuff pressure in the cuff (210) to produce cuff pressure data; a processing unit (116) configured for searching for a statistically significant frequency of pressure spikes in said monitored cuff pressure, and, when said statistically significant frequency is found, issue an alert that said cuff is ruptured or punctured.
摘要:
An intubation method and system including the insertion of an endotracheal tube (10) into a patient airway (11), inflating an cuff (12) associated with the endotracheal tube at a location in the patient airway below the vocal cords, monitoring carbon dioxide concentration in the patient airway at a carbon dioxide monitoring location between the cuff and the vocal cords and adjusting inflation of the cuff based at least in part on the monitoring in order that the cuff inflation generally prevents leakage of carbon dioxide past the cuff.