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Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2001
Case ReportsThe inability to detect expired carbon dioxide after endotracheal intubation as a result of one-way valve obstruction of the endotracheal tube.
- H A Zar and W W Wu.
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA. haz1859@med.unc.edu
- Anesth. Analg. 2001 Oct 1; 93 (4): 971-2, table of contents.
ImplicationsFailure to tracheally intubate and ventilate the lungs is a major cause of anesthesia morbidity. Expired carbon dioxide monitoring has become a standard for assessing correct endotracheal tube placement. We present a case of failure to detect expired carbon dioxide after successful intubation resulting from a one-way valve obstruction of the endotracheal tube.
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