Technology
Airway management is of paramount importance in emergency medicine, intensive care, and anesthesiology.
Performed millions of times annually, intubation presents challenges even for highly experienced health care practitioners including.
Resembling a standard, curved, PVC endotracheal tube, ETView has developed an endotracheal tube with a miniaturized camera embedded in its tip for continuous visualization and monitoring of the airways.
Airway Management in the ICU
With a camera at this critical location, medical personnel can effectively monitor, identify, and perform suction on the buildup of secretions in both lungs, thereby significantly minimizing the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Currently in clinical use in over 40 hospitals, the TVT enables effective airway management by continuous monitoring of patient airways. Continuous monitoring ensures that both lungs are oxygenated and suction of secretions is performed where needed.
The TVT can significantly lower healthcare costs by contributing to shorter hospital stays and reducing the need for medical imaging by X-ray or fiber-optic bronchoscopes.
Successful intubation in difficult situations
Difficult intubations are highly stressful procedures in which the patient's life is at risk due to no oxygen supply. By viewing images, the intubation procedure is made considerably easier. More so, by using the ETView TVT, there is a limited need for the laryngoscope, a tool commonly associated with broken teeth.
The images from the TVT can be viewed on any standard video monitor, or on ETView’s dedicated display and recording monitors.
The TVT is indicated for use in the ICU, OR, ER and pre-hospital for —
- verification of tube position,
- within ICU
- in OR surgeries requiring flipping of the patient
- detection and pinpointed suctioning of secretion buildup within the trachea,
- difficult intubations, and
- visualization and monitoring during airway access procedures such as
- introduction of an endobronchial blocker for selective unilateral lung breathing or
- when performing a percutaneous tracheostomy with uninterrupted ventilation.
Timely, effective, and decisive airway management can make the difference between life and death.
ETView... for a clear view of airway management.