Development of catheter of movable tracheal cannula / 中国医学装备

ABSTRACT

Objective:To develop a catheter of movable tracheal cannula for single lung ventilation so as to compensate the existed disadvantages of using double-lumen bronchial catheter and bronchial occlusive device in single lung ventilation in present.Methods: A long tracheal catheter was installed into a short endotracheal catheter so as to form a complete catheter of tracheal cannula. The internally installed catheter could be rotated and moved in the cannula. After then, the front-end direction of internally installed catheter was chose through rotated the catheter according to the requirement of operation, and the single lung ventilation could be achieved when the internally installed catheter was pushed forward and was inserted in left or right bronchus. After the operation, the internally installed catheter exited out from bronchus to trachea and was used to implement double lung ventilation, or it was pulled out from outer cannula and the double lung ventilation was implemented by using outer cannual.Results: The ventilation effect of single-lung was doubtless when the catheter of movable tracheal cannula was inserted in left or right bronchus by using internally installed catheter. The technique of intubation tube was simpler than that of double-lumen bronchial catheter and bronchial occlusive device. The internally installed catheter could rotate in the outer cannula so as to protect tracheal wall and avoid oxygen deficit of patient during the processes of replacing tracheal catheter and the difficulty of replacing tracheal catheter post-operation of double-lumen bronchial catheter. Besides, it also could avoid the injury risk of anastomotic stoma of esophageal surgery caused by mis-insertion of tracheal catheter in esophagus.Conclusion: This kind of removable tracheal cannula has reasonable design, simple operation of intubation and better clinical practicability, and its feasibility is better that the product is transformed.