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34. Are double lumen endotracheal tubes superior to bronchial blockers?

Depth of Anesthesia

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The Importance of Time to Placement in Anesthesia

Time to placement was 51 seconds faster for the double lumen tube group. Time after you make your patient app, Nick, and you want to secure the airway is maybe much more important than the time that you spend without as much hustle before you induce the patient. I think a lot of anesthesia is preparation, and we can prepare these things before when the patients are stable. And so that critical airway time, when there's more opportunity for instability, there's less differences between the groups. But just like you said, if anything, thedouble lumen tube is faster as we see in this study.

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