alternative.The use of a glove finger as a protective sheath serves two functions.Firstly, it protects the nasal passages from the hard edges of the tube bevel, so that the tube is an obturator rather than a curette.Secondly, the cuff is protected from the nasal conchae.Used in
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Barrett et al. (1986) studied this question.