The distal tip of the esophageal temperature probe (encircled in yellow) should be placed in the lower third of the esophagus. Given the anatomical proximity of the lower esophagus and the left atrium ...

FTIR spectroscopy is a robust technique for real-time in situ monitoring of a reaction or process, which can be realized in two ways: in situ through an insertion probe or via flow through cells ...

Placement of a double-lumen endotracheal tube is an airway-management technique that permits isolation and selective ventilation of a single lung. Double-lumen tubes are bifurcated into a bronchial ...

A hard probe inserted in the cerebral cortex of a rat model turns nearly as pliable as the surrounding gray matter in minutes, and induces less of the tough scarring that walls off hard probes that do ...

Tympanostomy tubes are commonly placed to treat chronic otitis media with effusion and recurrent acute otitis media. In fact, tympanostomy tube placement is the most common ambulatory surgery ...