Beware the siren's song of novel endotracheal tube designs

Michael Klompas^{1

2}, Lorenzo Berra³, Richard Branson⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Division of Trauma and Critical Care, University of Cincinnati, 231 Albert Sabin Way #558, Cincinnati, OH, 545267, USA. Richard.branson@uc.edu.

Editorial

Michael Klompas et al. Intensive Care Med. 2017 Nov.

. 2017 Nov;43(11):1708-1711.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4778-0. Epub 2017 Mar 31.

Michael Klompas^{1

2}, Lorenzo Berra³, Richard Branson⁴

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Division of Trauma and Critical Care, University of Cincinnati, 231 Albert Sabin Way #558, Cincinnati, OH, 545267, USA. Richard.branson@uc.edu.

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Impact of tapered-cuff tracheal tube on microaspiration of gastric contents in intubated critically ill patients: a multicenter cluster-randomized cross-over controlled trial.
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