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Work practices relating to intubation in operating rooms in Sweden. 1986

S Mehta, and M Mickiewicz

A survey into the current usage of tracheal tubes in operating rooms was carried out in Sweden by sending a questionnaire to anaesthetists in charge of anaesthetic departments in 90 acute hospitals, which included seven teaching hospitals. The object was to determine how far the recent advances in tube, cuff design, and material had influenced the attitudes and work practices of anaesthetists. Fifty-eight replies were recorded (a 64.4% response rate). All teaching hospitals and the majority of other hospitals favoured tubes with high-volume, low-pressure cuffs. Most hospitals used size 9 orotracheal tubes in adult male and size 8 in adult female patients. Seventy-one per cent of teaching hospitals used both local anaesthetic jelly for lubricating tubes and topical laryngeal spray prior to intubation. Nasal decongestants were used by only 14.2% of teaching hospitals prior to nasal intubation. Over three-fourths of the hospitals were in favour of inflating the cuff to no-leak ventilation. Just over half of non-teaching hospital and two-thirds of teaching hospital monitored intracuff pressure.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007442	Intubation, Intratracheal	A procedure involving placement of a tube into the trachea through the mouth or nose in order to provide a patient with oxygen and anesthesia.	Intubation, Endotracheal,Endotracheal Intubation,Endotracheal Intubations,Intratracheal Intubation,Intratracheal Intubations,Intubations, Endotracheal,Intubations, Intratracheal
D011795	Surveys and Questionnaires	Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions.	Community Survey,Nonrespondent,Questionnaire,Questionnaires,Respondent,Survey,Survey Method,Survey Methods,Surveys,Baseline Survey,Community Surveys,Methodology, Survey,Nonrespondents,Questionnaire Design,Randomized Response Technique,Repeated Rounds of Survey,Respondents,Survey Methodology,Baseline Surveys,Design, Questionnaire,Designs, Questionnaire,Methods, Survey,Questionnaire Designs,Questionnaires and Surveys,Randomized Response Techniques,Response Technique, Randomized,Response Techniques, Randomized,Survey, Baseline,Survey, Community,Surveys, Baseline,Surveys, Community,Techniques, Randomized Response
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000758	Anesthesia	A state characterized by loss of feeling or sensation. This depression of nerve function is usually the result of pharmacologic action and is induced to allow performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
D013548	Sweden	Country in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Finland and Norway. The capital is Stockholm.