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happily " hunting rabbits " for two years before
disappearing; Waters was convinced someone had
dognapped him.2
Correspondence between Guedel and Waters
continued after Guedel established himself in
Southern California. As interest in cuffed endotracheal
tubes intensified, the two collaborators enlisted the
assistance of Dr. E.I. McKesson, President of Toledo
Technical Appliance Company (Toledo, OH) in the
production of catheters.5
The tubes made by Toledo
Technical were expensive and time-consuming to
manufacture, and therefore were reused between
patients after being sanitized through boiling.5
The
exchange below captures the excitement that these
novel endotracheal tubes generated:
March 19, 1929
Ralph Waters MD (Madison, WI) to
Arthur Guedel MD (Beverly Hills, CA)
" The balloon which you enclosed in your last
letter looks like a dinger; I think you said I
could keep it, at any rate I have it. You are
certainly an artist at making the things. Sise
and Woodbridge of the Lahey Clinic are very
much interested in the idea and want some
catheters and balloons as soon as they are
available... They are pestering me for the name
of the manufacturer, as is Lundy in Rochester. " 5
These early cuffed endotracheal catheters served
as the archetype upon which every modern
endotracheal tube is based. In a 1928 letter to
Waters, Dr. Guedel lamented that the practice of
medicine sometimes seemed futile.1 Indeed, even
with the use of an early cuffed endotracheal tube,
the patient he described had expired without a clear
cause.1 However, as its practice and design were
refined and perfected, Guedel's cuffed endotracheal
tube prevented countless other patients from
facing similar demises. It enabled the modern-day
anesthesiologist to protect patients more reliably
from aspiration, provide positive-pressure ventilation,
ventilate a single lung at a time, and reduce operating
room staff's exposure to anesthetics. Dr. Guedel's
cuffed endotracheal tube has endowed the field with
a powerful tool to provide higher quality, safer care
to patients, and has ultimately made the practice of
anesthesia less futile.
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