Univent Tube Provides a New Technique for Jet Ventilation

(Ransom) Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology.(Detterbeck) Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery.(Klein) Resident, Department of Anesthesiology.Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology.Received from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Submitted for publication August 30, 1995. Accepted for publication November 8, 1995.Address reprint requests to Dr. Ransom: Department of Anesthesiology, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #7010,223 Burnett-Womack Building, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599–7010.HIGH-FREQUENCY jet ventilation (HFJV) is of great advantage during surgical airway resection. When the airway is divided surgically, HFJV can be delivered via small catheters across the field to permit ventilation of the distal airways. This technique has been applied during tracheal reconstruction, tracheal stenosis surgery, sleeve resection of a lung, and management of bronchopleural fistulas. [1]We performed HFJV with a Univent tube (Fuji Systems, Tokyo, Japan), a specialized endotracheal tube incorporating a bronchial