Stening® Bronchial Stent
"With a ventilation hole" for the right upper lobe.
Code ST-LSD
Description
The LSD from Stening®, with a lateral hole, is useful for diseases in the main right bronchus or the intermediate one when you want to preserve the ventilation of the upper lobe through the lateral hole of the stent. The hole must be orientated to this lobar.
Stening® provides detailed instructions for use with each device, including insertion and removal techniques, precautions, and postoperative care.
- Neoplasms in the main right bronchus or intermediate one that do not affect the upper lobar
- Extrinsic compression under equal conditions
Due to the characteristics of the production process, the measurements of the devices can vary by +/- 2%.
- Medical grade silicone
- Bevelled edges to prevent granulomas
- Spur system to prevent migration
- Removable
- Surface of maximum softness to avoid adherence of secretions
- Transparent or Radiopaque
The removal and introduction technique described in the Stening Tracheal Stent can be followed. But the tracheoscope must be replaced by a bronchoscope with a diameter of 10 or 11 mm.
Introduction technique:
The procedure will take place under general anaesthesia.
The implant of these type of prostheses can be made directly through the work channel of the tracheoscope or bronchoscope.
A conventional introducer for silicone prostheses can be used as well. A rigid endoscope will be used to access the airway.
The length and diameter of the area that the stent will cover must be established correctly.
If you want to know the length of the area, you can mark the tracheoscope when its extreme is located at the end of the injury. Repeat the process once the tracheoscope is moved up to the beginning of the injury. The diameter of the trachea or bronchi must be estimated by comparing it with the diameter of the endoscope used.
Retrograde mode of Implant:
- Lubricate the introducer nozzle with lidocaine gel, preventing the lubricant from reaching the operator’s fingers.
- Fold the Stening® over its axial axis and put it inside the prostheses introducer through its nozzle.
- Remove the nozzle.
- Surpass the injured area with the tube of the tracheoscope and put its distal edge over the healthy mucosa, exceeding from 5 to 7 mm the affected zone.
- Put the introducer inside the tracheoscope.
- Press the ejector while the tracheoscope is removed and the ejector plunger progresses. That is, the plunger of the stents’ charger has to be pressed as the endoscope is removed.
In this way, the prosthesis will be released. If it is necessary, it can be moved to a better position with an alligator forceps. The manoeuvre is much easier when the stent is lower than the injury.
Antegrade mode of implant:
Steps 1 to 3 will be repeated.
You have to stop the tracheoscope that contains the introducer and the prosthesis 5 mm before the injury.
After that, you have to press the ejector plunger slowly. By doing this, the prosthesis will be expelled into the injured trachea.
Some stents’ charger models are not introduced inside the tracheoscope, but they are added to the proximal extreme, from where the stent is expelled. To accomplish this, the endoscope will have to be stopped in a proximal or distal way to the injury, as it was explained before, to push the prosthesis with the plunger that is provided with the endoscopic instrumental. In this way, the stent will travel through the tracheoscope until it reaches the trachea. At this point, we will feel a small reduction of the resistance in the pressure performed on the plunger, showing that the stent has begun to abandon the endoscope interior.
Correction of the stent position:
The stent may require some additional manoeuvres, focusing on correcting or adjusting its final position.
It is preferable to correct stent that has been installed beyond the desired position than the opposite, due to the arduousness of pushing a stent that has been released before the damaged zone.
To move a stent in a proximal way, it can be taken by its edge and then you must pull with kindness.
To be more accurate we recommend a manoeuvre that consists on taking the stent by its edge as it was mentioned before. After that, you have to advance with the optical vision through the stent’s inside until you see its ending. Now pull the forceps and you will be able to see how the stent ascends through the airway.
Stop the pulling as long as you consider that the position is correct.
Extraction technique:
We will proceed to the intubation with the tracheoscope or the rigid bronchoscope depending on the case.
Of easy extraction, the silicone stent must be taken by its proximal edge with a crocodile forceps, with enough steadiness. Rotate the forceps 360º so that the stent bends, acquiring an omega shape and losing its radial resistance to compression. Then, pull the forceps and extract the prosthesis together with the tracheoscope.
The stent proximal edge can be introduced inside the tracheoscope. With this manoeuvre the vocal chords are protected during the extraction.
Other implant and removal methods are also possible depending on the experiences and preferences of the surgeon.
The use of this stent is exclusive for diseases that take place in the main right bronchus or the intermediate one that have an unscathed upper lobar. So, pay particular attention on orientating the stent inside the ejector and this one inside the bronchoscope. In order to leave the stent lateral hole confronted with the right upper lobular entrance when the stent is freed inside the bronchus. Once implanted, the air will enter to the upper lobe through the lateral hole of the LSD from Stening®.
Very similar to everything considered for bronchial stents: keep the moisture of secretions whenever they appear, perform frequent nebulisations with a warm isotonic saline solution. Do a periodic control specified by the doctor. Treat cavities and take care of your oral hygiene
The product should not be reused because this can cause cross contamination.
Polymeric tracheal/bronchial stent, non-bioabsorbable, sterile
A sterile non-bioabsorbable tubular device intended to be implanted into the trachea and/or a bronchus/bronchiole to maintain luminal patency, typically used in cases of obstructions/stenoses, fistulae, tumours, scarring, surgical resection and anastomosis, or pulmonary transplantation. It is made entirely of a synthetic polymer(s) [e.g., silicone] and may have various designs (e.g., semi-soft continuous tube, covered or non-covered mesh structure, straight or branched configuration) intended to conform to the endotracheal/endobronchial surface. It may be expandable in situ (e.g., self-expands) and disposable devices intended to assist implantation may be included.
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