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Misplacement of left-sided double-lumen tubes into the right mainstem bronchus: incidence, risk factors and blind repositioning techniques
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- Issue Date
- 2015-10-28
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Citation
- BMC Anesthesiology, 15(1):157
- Keywords
- Airway management ; Anesthesia ; General ; Bronchi ; Intubation ; Intratracheal ; One-lung ventilation
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- Abstract
- Abstract
Background
Double-lumen endobronchial tubes (DLTs) are commonly advanced into the mainstem bronchus either blindly or by fiberoptic bronchoscopic guidance. However, blind advancement may result in misplacement of left-sided DLTs into the right bronchus. Therefore, incidence, risk factors, and blind repositioning techniques for right bronchial misplacement of left-sided DLTs were investigated.
Methods
This was an observational cohort study performed on the data depository consecutively collected from patients who underwent intubation of left-sided DLTs for 2years. Patients clinical and anatomical characteristics were analyzed to investigate risk factors for DLT misplacements with logistic regression analysis. Moreover, when DLTs were misplaced into the right bronchus, the bronchial tube was withdrawn into the trachea and blindly readvanced without rotation, or with 90° or 180° counterclockwise rotation while the patients head was turned right.
Results
DLTs were inadvertently advanced into the right bronchus in 48 of 1135 (4.2%) patients. DLT misplacements occurred more frequently in females, in patients of short stature or with narrow trachea and bronchi, and when small-sized DLTs were used. All of these factors were significantly inter-correlated each other (P < 0.001). In 40 of the 48 (83.3%) patients, blind repositioning was successful.
Conclusions
Smaller left-sided DLTs were more frequently misplaced into the right mainstem bronchus than larger DLTs. Moreover, we were usually able to reposition the misplaced DLTs into the left bronchus by using the blind techniques.
Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT01371773
.
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- English
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