The O'Dwyer Tube
@article{Gifford1970TheOT, title={The O'Dwyer Tube}, author={Robert R. Gifford}, journal={Clinical Pediatrics}, year={1970}, volume={9}, pages={179 - 185} }
covery or was opposed by the parents of the obstructed child. The introduction of laryngeal intubation by Dr. Joseph P. O’Dwyer in the early 18~~’s,= gave the clinician both a more efficient and a less traumatic therapeutic maneuver than tracheotomy. During the next decade, laryngeal intubation gradually replaced tracheotomy in the treatment of diphtheritic croup until after 1895 when the advent of diphtheria antitoxin rendered both procedures infrequent. Diphtheria in the last quarter of the…
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The changing indications for tracheostomy in children
- MedicineThe Journal of Laryngology & Otology
- 1987
The tracheostomy was described before the birth of Christ but was done infrequently until the 19th century, when it gained acceptance in the management of diphtheria, and is derived from the analogy of the rapid panting of an obstructed patient to a dog.
19th century pioneers of intensive therapy in North America. Part 2: Joseph O'Dwyer.
- MedicineCritical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine
- 2008
Throughout his medical lifetime, O'Dwyer was held in the highest regard as an altruistic, compassionate person of "sincere simplicity and frank goodness of character".
Tracheotomy: Historical Review
- MedicineThe Laryngoscope
- 2008
Improvements in the care of tracheotomized patients and the application of modifications in the available variety of tubes and ancillary equipment and procedures have made this a much more effective and widely utilized way of caring for the pulmonary cripple.
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REPORT OF FIVE HUNDRED CASES OF INTUBATION OF THE LARYNX.
- Medicine
- 1896
It has been my pleasure to have reported, on a previous occasion, 466 cases of intubation. To this number I can now add 37, making a total of 503. Of these thirty-seven cases there were seventeen…
A Report of 392 Cases of Intubation and 139 Cases of Tracheotomy Done at the Boston City Hospital
- Medicine
- 1891
INTUBATION OF THE LARYNX, WITH PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.
- Medicine
- 1901
It is reported that this was the first intubation performed west of New York, and the tube was successfully introduced on the third attempt, giving prompt and immediate relief.
Antitoxin and intubation in treatment of laryngeal diphtheria with summary of 230 cases. Ibid
- 1901
The construction of O ’ Dwyer tubes , with special report of three - hundred and fifty cases of intubation of the larynx
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- 1890
Reduced period of intubation by serum treatment of laryngeal diphtheria
- Ibid
- 1896