0 the act of putting a tube into any hollow organ or tube-shaped structure in the body in order to keep it open, remove liquid for testing, or give a drug: --
gastrointestinal/nasal intubation
If performed without intubation and anesthetic support, the transesophageal echocardiography was 65% of that for resonance imaging.
Only one study that reported an operator as "experienced" quantified the statement by stating the number of intubations previously performed (thirty intubations) (6).
In all patients mechanical ventilation was removed within 14 hours and the mean trachcal intubation period was 7 + 2.5 hours alter the surgery.
The number of different approaches to fiberoptic intubation and the variety of equipment available exacerbated this problem.
These studies, all with the same principal author, used the same equipment to perform nasal fiberoptic intubations in at least one intervention group.
Mean intubation time before bypass was 12+9 days.
As a result, mean intubation period was 52.7+14.3 hours totally and 27.0+8.2 hours in recent two years.
Three studies commented on experience of nonfiberoptic intubation techniques but did not explicitly state no prior experience of fiberoptic intubation.
