An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . elled so as to better allow of the closure ofthe epiglottis over the aperture of the tube; the tubes are gold-plated, andeach is provided with an obturator, which has a blunt extremity. Just belowthe head the tube is of small diameter to avoid injurious pressure on the vocal INTUBATION OF THE LARYNX. 313 Through the edge of the collar on cadi cords. About midway the wall of the tube is increased to its greatest diame-ter, which bulging servee to maintain it in position daring coughing andincreases the weight to be expelled,tube there isa s
An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . elled so as to better allow of the closure ofthe epiglottis over the aperture of the tube; the tubes are gold-plated, andeach is provided with an obturator, which has a blunt extremity. Just belowthe head the tube is of small diameter to avoid injurious pressure on the vocal INTUBATION OF THE LARYNX. 313 Through the edge of the collar on cadi cords. About midway the wall of the tube is increased to its greatest diame-ter, which bulging servee to maintain it in position daring coughing andincreases the weight to be expelled,tube there isa small perforation throughwhich the strand of fine braided silk is Fig. 2 passed, which serves to remove the tubeif in its introduction it Bhould be passedinto the pharynx <»r oesophagus insteadof the larynx, or if from Budden ob-struction it has to be hurriedly with- «ldrawn. ^WWThe introducer (Fig. 1) consists of Mouth-gag. ^^a handle and a staff which is curvedto a ri^rht angle at its extremity, which has a screw that attaches it to the Fio.
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