Endotracheal Tube (ETT) Option 🫁

Endotracheal Tube (ETT) 🫁

Practical summary, easy to remember for students / nurses / emergency carpool

📌 what is ETT?

Endotracheal Tube is used through the mouth or nose into the trachea to help open the airway and connect the ventilator.

✅ ETT size selection principle

👩 Adult

Group. Frequently used size.

Women 7.0 - 7.5

Men 7.5 - 8.5

📌 Easy to remember

* General female → 7.0-7.5

* General male → 8.0

If very small / airway hard → reduce size

👶. Children.

Recipe Calculated (Uncuffed)

ETT\ Size =\ frac {Age} {4} + 4

Calculated Formula (Cuffed)

ETT\ Size =\ frac {Age} {4} + 3.5

Sample

4-year-old child

* Uncuffed → 5.0

* Cuffed → 4.5

📏 Depth

Adult

Group Depth

Men 21-23 cm

Women 19-21 cm

📌 How to remember

"Male 23 Female 21"

Children

Depth\ (cm) = ETT\ Size\ times 3

Such as ETT 5.0 →, about 15 cm deep.

🔥 Choose cuff or uncuffed?

Type used in

Cuffed Most Adults / Kids Currently

Uncuffed some young children / neonatal

✅. Advantage cuffed.

* Little Leak

* Good tidal volume control

* Reduce aerosol leakage

⚠️ The important thing after wearing ETT.

Must always check "into the trachea."

How to evaluate

✅ Listen to the two lungs.

✅ Look, chest rise.

✅ ETCO ❣ up.

✅ O ❣ sat better.

✅ CXR North tube end carina 3-5 cm

🚨 Complications to watch out for

* Right mainstem intubation

* Esophageal intubation

* Tube obstruction

* Pressure injury from cuff

* Accidental extubation

✨ Short Note, remember before entering the emergency room.

🩺 Female 7.0-7.5

🩺 Male 7.5-8.5

🩺 Child = Age / 4 + 4

🩺 Depth Kids = size × 3

🩺 Male 23 Female 21

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