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The use of bromothymol blue and sodium thiopentone to confirm tracheal intubation.
John Dingley
Anaesthesia, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 29 - 32
Swansea University Author: John Dingley
Abstract
The possibility of using chemical changes to confirm correct tracheal tube placement was investigated with a view to their use in developing countries where more sophisticated methods are unavailable. The effect of bubbling expired gases through a 10% solution of bromothymol blue and a 0.25% solutio...
| Published in: | Anaesthesia |
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| Published: |
1996
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27513 |
| Abstract: |
The possibility of using chemical changes to confirm correct tracheal tube placement was investigated with a view to their use in developing countries where more sophisticated methods are unavailable. The effect of bubbling expired gases through a 10% solution of bromothymol blue and a 0.25% solution of thiopentone led to chemical changes producing, in the case of bromothymol blue, a colour change and in that of thiopentone, precipitation, probably due to a change in pH caused by carbon dioxide. We also discovered that the time to precipitation of the thiopentone could be greatly reduced if it was mixed with a precise quantity of lignocaine. These simple end points can reliably confirm the correct placement of a tracheal tube at least as rapidly as the correct use of capnography. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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1 |
| Start Page: |
29 |
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32 |