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Anaesthesia

Title:		Tactile orotracheal tube placement test. A bimanual tactile examination of the positioned orotracheal tube to confirm laryngeal placement
Author(s):		Charters, P. Wilkinson, K.
Address:		Clatterbridge Hospital, Bebington, Wirral.
Year:		1987 Aug
Journal Title:		Anaesthesia
Page Number:		801-7
Language:		eng
Volume:		42
Issue:		8
ISSN/ISBN:		0003-2409 (Print). 0003-2409 (Linking)
Abstract:		The development of a tactile clinical test of the positioned orotracheal tube is described which allows confirmation of its location within the larynx. It was possible, after preliminary experience with the test, to confirm laryngeal placement confidently