ReviewAnesthesia and pain medicine2022
Choice of the correct size of endotracheal tube in pediatric patients.
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Estimation of Correlation Betweeen Antropometric Characteristics of Children up to 8 Years and Age-based Formulas for Uncuffed Endotracheal Tube in Elective Intubated Children During General Anesthesia
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for confirming endotracheal tube placement in pediatric acute care settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Utilizing ultrasonography to determine the minimal transverse diameter of the subglottic airway for informed selection of reinforced cuffed endotracheal tube models in children.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Trial
- Endotracheal Tube Size in Children with Congenital Heart Disease.Annals of cardiac anaesthesia · 2026Article
- Trends in general anesthesia for pediatric dental treatment: a 10-year retrospective analysis at a regional university dental hospital in South Korea.Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine · 2026Article
- Assessing the feasibility of shape-sensing robotic bronchoscopy mapping to lung nodules in pediatric patients.Journal of pediatric surgery · 2026Article
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- Pediatric Bronchoscopy for the Adult Interventional Pulmonologist.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Characteristics of endotracheal tube design of different brands are related to proper endotracheal tube position in pediatrics: a descriptive study.Translational pediatrics · 2025Article
- The evaluation of endotracheal tube cuff pressure in pediatric patients by subjective inflation techniques: a prospective observational study.BMC anesthesiology · 2024Observational
- Endotracheal intubation using a spiral endotracheal tube effectively reduces total tube handling time in children aged one month to six years using a McGrathTM video laryngoscope: a prospective randomized trial.Anesthesia and pain medicine · 2024Article
- Paradigms of intraoperative neuromonitoring in paediatric thyroid surgery.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- The development of prediction model for cuffed tracheal tube size from the middle finger in pediatrics: a concise and feasible approach.Translational pediatrics · 2023Article
- Endotracheal tube forces exerted on the larynx and a novel support device to reduce it.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2023Article
- Airway ultrasound for patients anticipated to have a difficult airway: Perspective for personalized medicine.World journal of clinical cases · 2023Review
- Increasing number of intubation attempts in paediatrics - The issue is tube size or the cuff.Journal of anaesthesiology, clinical pharmacologyArticle
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Selection and insertion of an endotracheal tube (ETT) of appropriate size for airway management during general anesthesia in pediatric patients is very important. A very small ETT increases the risk of inadequate ventilation, air leakage, and aspiration, whereas a very large ETT may cause serious complications including airway damage, post-intubation croup, and, in severe cases, subglottic stenosis. Although the pediatric larynx is conical, the narrowest part, the rima glottidis, is cylindrical in the anteroposterior dimension, regardless of development, and the cricoid ring is slightly elliptical. A cuffed ETT reduces the number of endotracheal intubation attempts, and if cuff pressure can be maintained within a safe range, the risk of airway damage may not be greater than that of an ETT without cuff. The age-based formula suggested by Cole (age/4 + 4) has long been used to select the appropriate ETT size in children. Because age-based formulas in children are not always accurate, various alternative methods for estimating the ETT size have been examined and suggested. Chest radiography, ultrasound, and a three-dimensional airway model can be used to determine the appropriate ETT size; however, there are several limitations.
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