21. They were sucking blood from his endotracheal tube . 22. In this study, he demonstrated that expired air blown into the endotracheal tube maintained normal oxygen saturation. 23. In a nasotracheal procedure, an endotracheal tube is passed through the nose and vocal apparatus into the trachea. 24. Other variations of the device can have an endotracheal tube passed through the LMA and into the trachea. 25. One particularly bad day, I pinned down the baby's thrashing arms as the nurse retaped his endotracheal tube . 26. The endotracheal tube has a fitting designed to be connected to a source of pressurized gas such as oxygen. 27. Studies on the accuracy of predicting endotracheal tube sizes consistently demonstrate the superiority of length predictions over other methods. 28. David Sheridan was the inventor of the modern " disposable " plastic endotracheal tube now used routinely in surgery. 29. It has a split blade, which allows use of an endotracheal tube and is in universal use to this day. 30. He also used an endotracheal tube to keep the lungs ventilated and injected heparin into the heart to prevent clotting.
