Added: 01/24/2006 |
Olympus video bronchoscopes as the instruments for diagnosis and surgeryAn Olympus video bronchoscopes are the instruments consisting of a flexible tube of 6.2 mm with an instrumentation canal that allows using a wide spectrum of endoscopic instruments. The Olympus video bronchoscopes are easy to operate and may be used in a wide variety of applications. Most of bronchoscopes are perfect for a variety of therapeutic procedures.
When selecting the Olympus video bronchoscopes, you should know that it is equipped with an endoscopic video processor. The minimum set includes a video bronchoscope, a video production, and a display.
When selecting Olympus video bronchoscopes, you should take into account performance specifications like field of vision, depth resolution, distant end turn, diameter of distance end, and diameter of the tube, the diameter of the instrument canal, the length of the tube, and its whole length.
The standard set of Olympus bronchoscopes includes a video bronchoscope, biopsy port, biopsy forceps, and cytological brush, cleaning brushes, the valve of a biopsy, cleaning adaptor, and bite board, a plate for the gas charging valve, plate for soaking, case operating manual, and key.
The company also offers the portable intubation fiberscopes with an advanced optical system. They are used in emergency situations and operating rooms.
Intubations are the introduction of special tubes in the trachea or bronchus under general anesthesia. It is part of the reanimation procedures for artificial pulmonary ventilation. Intubations are known to provide the tightness between the patient's airways and the medical ventilation apparatus needed for the accurate dosages of a volatile anesthetic agent and artificial ventilation. The intubations also provide increases the potency of airways, and decrease the dead space. There is no absolute contradiction for intubations. The comparative contradiction includes the diseases of the pharynx, larynx, and the trachea which is acute inflammation.
The intubations of the trachea are performed through the nose and the mouth.
Special instruments include a set of intubations tubes, forceps, and guides, and connectors, laryngoscopes. The intubations are made when the pharyngeal and laryngeal reflexes are neutralized and the mesmeric and cervical muscles are relaxed. The general anesthesia may create the optimal condition for intubations.
The possible complications can be caused by an insufficient suppression of the pharyngeal and laryngeal reflexes and insufficient muscle relaxation, any upper airways weakness of the insufficient experience of a doctor. The teeth, lower jaw, and mucous membrane of the tongue facets the soft palate, pharynx, epiglottis, and the vocal cords may be damaged. The gastric contents may come to the airways and it is the most dangerous and serious complications during an intubations. Many days after the intubations the patient may suffer from laryngeal edema, tracheitis, phyngolyritis, hoarseness, and aphonia.
Therefore, intubations are usually performed to eliminate breathlessness cause by burns and other injuries. Sometimes intubations may be a substitute for the tracheotomy. When the asphyxiation risk has subsided the tube is taken out and the patient switches back to normal breathing.
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