The clinical research about anesthetic factors on NIM tube in thyroidectomy - The clinical research about anesthetic factors on NIM tube in thyroidectomy

Out of 62 patients, 39 patients (19 male and 20 female) were included in this study. Tube disposition was observed in 27 patients (69 %), and 22 of them had inward movement, shor%ening of the distance between the tube electrocodes and the carina.The disposition group tended to have a shorter sterno-cricoid distance (mean 43.8 mm, range 32.2-55.9) than control group (49.7 mm, 40.7-63.7, p=0.048).10 patients (26 %) had malfunction of vocal cord at postoperative day 1.In all ten patients, the hoarseness was disappeared within six months after the operation.