An endotracheal tube is a flexible tube that helps people breathe during surgery or medical emergencies by going through the mouth or nose into the windpipe. Common side effects of using an ...

A chest tube can help drain air, blood, or fluid from the pleural space, which is the space surrounding your lungs. Inserting a chest tube is called a chest tube thoracostomy. It’s typically an ...

Endotracheal tube exchange is an important part of airway management in patients in intensive care units, operating theaters, and emergency departments. 1,2 In most cases, the procedure involves the ...

A gastrostomy tube, or “G-tube,” provides access for long-term enteral nutrition in patients who are unable to eat. Gastrostomy tubes may be required in patients with cancer, stroke, traumatic brain ...

A chest tube is a thin, plastic tube that a doctor inserts into the pleural space, which is the area between the chest wall and the lungs. Doctors may need to use a chest tube for many purposes, such ...

The SB tube has three ports at one end, each with a different function: esophageal balloon port, which inflates a small balloon in the esophagus gastric aspiration port, which removes fluid and air ...

The eustachian tube runs between the throat and middle ear to maintain pressure in the eardrum. In some cases, people have a patulous eustachian tube, which does not open and close as normal. This ...

The ability to maintain nutrition and hydration is essential when caring for hospitalized older adults. When physicians recognize that long-term nutrition and hydration cannot be maintained through an ...

Tube fabricators use a variety of methods—sawing, lathe cutting, rotary cutting, supported shear cutting, dual-blade shear cutting, and laser cutting—to cut tubing from mill lengths into shorter ...