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Retrograde intubation is a misnomer since intubation is undertaken in the normal direction over a guide-passed retrogradely. The first description by Butler and Cirillo was of a catheter passed through a healing tracheostomy, up between the vocal cords and out of the mouth, over which a tracheal tube was railroaded. The first author to describe puncture of the intact cricothyroid membrane (CTM) was Waters (1963), then working in Africa. His method was to use a Tuohy needle to puncture the CTM, feed up ‘a yard’ of plastic tubing similar to an epidural catheter until it exited the mouth and intubate over the catheter.
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Retrograde intubation is a misnomer since intubation is undertaken in the normal direction over a guide-passed retrogradely. The first description by Butler and Cirillo was of a catheter passed through a healing tracheostomy, up between the vocal cords and out of the mouth, over which a tracheal tube was railroaded. The first author to describe puncture of the intact cricothyroid membrane (CTM) was Waters (1963), then working in Africa. His method was to use a Tuohy needle to puncture the CTM, feed up ‘a yard’ of plastic tubing similar to an epidural catheter until it exited the mouth and intubate over the catheter.
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