Placement of a double-lumen endotracheal tube is an airway-management technique that permits isolation and selective ventilation of a single lung. Double-lumen tubes are bifurcated into a bronchial ...

Methods for the study of cartilaginous airways represent technically very laborious and time-consuming procedures, many of these with the inevitable disruption or elimination of the distal bronchi and ...

Bronchotomy or surgical airway management is a surgical technique carried out for creating an open airway between the individual’s lungs and the outer atmosphere. Bronchotomy is a misnomer term and as ...

Several pediatric medical conditions, such as congenital heart disease, vascular compression, and congenital softening of the cartilage lining the trachea or bronchi, can compromise the airway and ...

An infant’s collapsing airway now has a device holding it open; as his tissue strengthens, the splint will be absorbed into his body Joseph Stromberg Engineers and doctors 3D printed this custom-made ...

Kaiba Gionfriddo was six weeks old when he suddenly stopped breathing and turned blue at a restaurant. Kaiba’s parents quickly rushed him to the hospital where they learned that his left bronchial ...