A modified technique of selective lung ventilation through a tracheostomy to facilitate conservative management of iatrogenic tracheal rupture

Abstract

tumor. Ventilation was ensured by using an armored 8F crossfield tracheal cannula through one of the two 1.5-cm access ports. Because cross-field intubation sometimes obstructs the limited visual field through the minithoracotomy, we modified this intubation by forming a loop with the tube. Therefore, strictly speaking, this method is a roundaboutfield intubation rather than a cross-field intubation.