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|Articles|November 1, 2013

Idea Exchange: Drawer + wooden dowels = organized endotracheal tubes

Keep your ET tubes orgnanized with this simple solution.

To organize our endotracheal tubes, we glued wooden dowels into a drawer. By storing the tubes in the drawer, we keep them away from debris—and the dowels keep the tubes sorted.

Brenda Girard, LVT

St. Clair Shores, Mich.


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