The smaller size, shown at the right is also useful as an expanding forceps for removing intubation tubes, and other hollow objects.
Prolonged stretching with oversized intubation tubes following excision or cauterization may sometimes be successful, but laryngostomy is usually required to combat the vicious contraction of luetic cicatrices.
Prolonged intubationmay induce either a supraglottic or subglottic tissue hyperplasia.
The use of a special intubation tube having a long antero-posterior lumen and a narrow neck, which form allows greater action of the musculature, has been successful in some cases.
The shape of the intubation tube has been arrived at after long clinical study and trials, and cannot be altered without risk of falling into errors that have been made and eliminated in the development of this shape.
Repeated removal and replacement of the intubation tube when dyspnea requires it may prove sufficient in the milder cases.
The Charters-Symonds or Guisez esophageal intubation tube is readily inserted after drawing the larynx forward with the laryngoscope.
Intubation is treacherous and unreliable except in diphtheritic cases; but in the diphtheritic cases it is ideal, if constant skilled watching can be had.
Intubation of the esophagus with soft rubber tubes has occasionally proven useful.
Prolonged wearing of an intubation tube, by disturbing the normal reciprocal equilibrium of the abductors and adductors, is one of the chief causes.
Intubation is not so safe because the secretions cannot easily be expelled through the tube and postintubational stenosis may be produced.
Esophageal intubation is indicated in all conditions except aneurysm.
In some cases the swelling is so great as to necessitate tracheotomy, or intubation of the larynx; and if the edema involve the bronchi, occlusion may be fatal.
Should the bronchi be so compressed by a benign condition as to prevent escape of secretions from the subjacent air passages, bronchial intubation tubes may be inserted, and, if necessary, worn constantly.
Intubation or tracheotomy may be called for on account of sudden urgent dyspnœa or of increasing stenosis.
Our experience of intubation is that it merely serves to tide the patient over a critical period of starvation, so that he may regain some strength for any other procedure that may be indicated.
If suffocation is imminent, tracheotomy or intubation is called for.
In diphtheria, intubation is justifiable when the disease is of a mild type without great toxæmia, where early diagnosis has been made, and antitoxin has been administered.
Although intubationhas received extensive trial, the published results show great variations and do not prove that intubation is superior to tracheotomy, but rather the reverse.
A case of intubation requires more personal attention than one of tracheotomy.
This last is a point that must always be remembered: intubation should never be performed unless everything has been prepared for opening the trachea.
When intubation is impracticable, the operation of tracheotomy is called for if the patient's life is endangered by embarrassment of respiration.
Intubation consists in introducing through the mouth into the larynx a tube which allows the patient to breathe freely during the period while the membrane is becoming separated and thrown off.
Intubation should be performed before the patient has become weak.
Intubation is more frequently practised in disease when the breathing has become difficult owing to the growth of membrane in the larynx.
The use of antitoxin has made the necessity for intubation occur much less frequently than before, and thus has undone some of the good contemplated by Dr.
At this time there was no such thing asintubation tubes suited for adults.
While at first intubation was looked upon as a merely temporary expedient, clinical experience showed that sometimes in neurotic patients it was necessary to let the tube remain in the throat for several weeks or even months.
The history of intubation is interesting mainly because it brings out clearly O'Dwyer's success where others had failed.
Considering that intubation of the larynx is usually thought to be a very modern treatment, this tradition in Greek medical history serves to show how transitory may be the effect of real progress in applied science.
The evolution ofintubation forms, moreover, a very interesting chapter in the story of medicine.
After this episodic existence among the Greeks, there is no mention of anything like intubation of the larynx until about the beginning of the nineteenth century.
O'Dwyer realized all the difficulties attached to the practice of intubation may be gathered from some of his articles on details of the treatment of patients necessary in order to make intubation a success.
After the method of treatment by intubation had been for some time before the medical profession of the country, a thorough discussion of it was held at one of the meetings of the Academy of Medicine of New York.
Besides the application of O'Dwyer's tubes in acute diseases affecting the larynx and causing difficulty of breathing, the method of intubation has proved of special service in the treatment of stenotic diseases of the larynx.
O'Dwyer's originality in the invention of intubation has sometimes been doubted.
The almost inevitable occurrence of pneumonia was supposed to be one of the serious objections to the use of the intubation methods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intubation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
