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Overview

Help Overcome Increased Work of Breathing Caused by an Endotracheal or Tracheostomy Tube

In mechanical ventilation, the artificial airway can create a considerable amount of imposed work of breathing (WOB).1,2

The Puritan Bennett™ Tube Compensation software option is a spontaneous breath type that accurately overcomes imposed WOB from endotracheal and tracheostomy tubes. It compensates for the resistance across the artificial airway.

The easy-to-implement option is engaged after four variables are entered into the ventilator. The ventilator adjusts up to 200 times a second to a patient’s spontaneous breaths.

Product Features

Ease of use

  • Key in the size of endotracheal tube or tracheostomy tube in place, and the ventilator automatically calculates the correct support.

Lower WOB

  • Patients can experience a lower work of breathing with the Tube Compensation software option when compared to CPAP or T-piece beathing.3,4

Potential for improved patient comfort

  • Patients who breathe spontaneously through an endotracheal tube while the Tube Compensation software option is engaged show increased signs of comfort compared to CPAP or T-piece breathing.5

Ability to track patients with variable drive

  • A patient’s ventilatory drive and flow can change dramatically depending on whether the patient is asleep or awake, calm or agitated. The Tube Compensation software can vary pressure to compensate for flow demand.6

How to Order

For additional information or to place an order, call Customer Service at +44 (0) 19 2320 2504.

Order Information
Order Code Description Unit of Measure Quantity
4-076441-00 Tube Compensation Each 1

For additional information or to place an order, call Customer Service at 019-232 025 04.

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Medtronic announced that it has decided to keep the Patient Monitoring and Respiratory Intervention businesses as a part of Medtronic, given changing market conditions. These businesses will get increased investment and be combined and called Acute Care & Monitoring (ACM).

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Resources

  • 1. Fabry B, Guttman J, Eberhard L, Wolff G. Automatic compensation of endotracheal tube resistance in spontaneous breathing patient. Tech Health Care. 1994;1:281-291.

  • 2. Haberthür C, Fabry B, Stocker R, Ritz R, Guttmann J. Additional inspiratory work of breathing imposed by tracheostomy tubes and non-ideal ventilator properties in critically ill patients. Intensive Care Med. 1999;25(5):514-519.

  • 3. Cohen JD, Shapiro M, Grozovski E, Lev S, Fisher H, Singer P. Extubation outcome following a spontaneous breathing trial with automatic tube compensation versus continuous positive airway pressure. Crit Care Med. 2006;34(3):682-686.

  • 4. Haberthür C, Mols G, Elsasser S, Bingisser R, Stocker R, Guttmann J. Extubation after breathing trials with automatic tube compensation, T-tube, or pressure support ventilation. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2002;46(8):973-979.

  • 5. Guttmann J, Bernhard H, Mols G, et al. Respiratory comfort of automatic tube compensation and inspiratory pressure support in conscious humans. Intensive Care Med. 1997;23(11):1119-1124.

  • 6. Cohen JD, Shapiro M, Grozovski E, Lev S, Fisher H, Singer P. Extubation outcome following a spontaneous breathing trial with automatic tube compensation versus continuous positive airway pressure. Crit Care Med. 2006;34(3):682-686.

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