When patients are mechanically ventilated, endotracheal tubes have the potential to disrupt normal airway secretion production and clearance. This ultimately results in secretion accumulation within standard endotracheal tubes and leads to numerous complications for the patient. Sharklet has developed two different test models (in vitro and in vivo) to evaluate the ability of Sharklet-micropatterned endotracheal tubes to reduce the accumulation of these secretions and improve patient care.

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