Product Description
A double-lumen endotracheal tube (also called double-lumen endobronchial tube or DLT) is a type of endotracheal tube which is used
in tracheal intubation during thoracic surgery and other medical conditions to achieve selective, one-sided ventilation of either
the right or the left lung.
Indications
There are several conditions that may make one-sided lung ventilation necessary. Absolute indications include separation of the
right from the left lung to avoid spillage of blood or pus from an infected or bleeding side to the unaffected side. Relative
indications include the collapse of one lung and the selective ventilation of the remaining lung in order to facilitate exposure
of the anatomical structures to be operated on in thoracic surgeries, such as the repair of a thoracic aortic aneurysm,
pneumonectomy or lobectomy.