The medical professions claims on the proper use of double lumen medical tubing, also referred to as DLT, during cardiothoracic or vascular thoracic surgery would involve a high degree of medical competency in order to reiterate their medical position on the critical use of double lumen tubing.
But one does not require a medical degree to explain or understand that double lumen tubing helps surgeons save lives in the operating room. It’s actually that simple, the reason, not the surgery, as to why double lumen tubing has enabled successful results for this application purposes.
To explain in it’s most basic terms: double lumen tubing consists of two lumens: one bronchial and one tracheal. The double lumen tube provides for ventilation of the lungs during an operation. The intubation process of the double lumen tubing occurs while the patient is anesthetized. The doctor first inserts the tracheal lumen tube into the patient’s trachea before the bronchial lumen tube is connected to allow for ventilation.
Now, here’s the important part.
Before starting the insertion process of the double lumen tubing, doctors need to first determine the diameter of a patient’s bronchus. This is done in order to select the appropriate size double lumen tubing that can easily be inserted and withdrawn into the bronchus without causing the patient harm.
But depending on the manufacturer, the availability of the appropriate size double lumen tube may not be available. However, there is a custom tubing manufacturer who can service the diverse needs of the medical industry. A.P. Extrusion can offer services in the design and manufacturing of small diameter medical lumen tubing to accommodate a wide range of bronchus, diameters.