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Experimental Investigation of Logitudinal Folds in Endotracheal Tube Cuffs and their Correlation to Silent Breathing

  • Air leakage past High-Volume-Low-Pressure (HVLP) endotracheal tube (ETT) cuffs creates a potential infection risk for health care professionals during ventilation of patients suffering from contagious airborne diseases. However, unlike silent aspiration, a phenomenon where fluids enter the airways of intubated patients, the aspect of aerosol emergence through cuff folds -what we called accordingly “silent breathing” (SB)- has not been investigated in detail so far. This study investigates air leakage past HVLP cuffs with varying cuff pressures under realistic artificial breathing scenarios experimentally and in addition numerically. The focus was laid on the parametric investigation of the occurrence and furthermore on different influencing factors of silent breathing. The morphology of the folds responsible for the leakage was captured using high-resolution 3D microcomputed tomography (μCT). For the numerical investigations (Com-putational Fluid Dynamics - CFD), the commercial CFD Software package FLUENT 2021 R2 (ANSYS, Inc., Canonsburg, PA, US), as well as the DLR in-house research code THETA has been used.

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Author:Lars KrenkelORCiDGND, Johanna Michel, Niklas Keil, Jan Daschner
URL / DOI:https://www.dlr.de/as/Portaldata/5/Resources/dokumente/veranstaltungen/stab_workshop/Jahresbericht2022.pdf
Parent Title (German):23. DGLR Fach-Symposium Strömungen mit Ablösung, 09./10. November 2022, Berlin, Deutschland
Place of publication:Göttingen
Document Type:conference proceeding (presentation, abstract)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Creating Corporation:Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Strömungen mit Ablösung, AG STAB
Release Date:2023/02/13
Tag:Aerosols; CFD; Endotracheal Intubation; Silent Breathing
Institutes:Fakultät Maschinenbau
Regensburg Center of Biomedical Engineering - RCBE
Fakultät Maschinenbau / Labor Biofluidmechanik
Begutachtungsstatus:begutachtet
research focus:Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik
Licence (German):Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International