Bronchial blockers

A bronchus blocker is a probe that can be inserted through an endotracheal tube into a main bronchus of the lungs and sealed with an inflatable block cuff . This is done as part of general anesthesia for operations in the chest ( thoracic surgery ), in which separate ventilation of the individual lungs is necessary ( one-lung ventilation or one-lung anesthesia ). The bronchus blocker is an alternative to the double lumen tube .

literature

U. Klein: Securing the airways. In: A. Benzing, B. Pannen: Praxishandbuch Anesthesia: Guide for clinical work. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7691-1271-9 .
Reinhard Larsen: Anesthesia and intensive medicine in cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery. (1st edition 1986) 5th edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 1999, ISBN 3-540-65024-5 , pp. 488-501 ( single-lung anesthesia ); here: p. 491 ( bronchus blocker ).

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhard Larsen: Anesthesia and intensive medicine in cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery. (1st edition 1986) 5th edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 1999, ISBN 3-540-65024-5 , pp. 488-501 ( single-lung anesthesia ).

[1] Reinhard Larsen: Anesthesia and intensive medicine in cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery. (1st edition 1986) 5th edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 1999, ISBN 3-540-65024-5 , pp. 488-501 ( single-lung anesthesia ).