Fiber bronchoscopy with artificial pulmonary ventilation by an injection method in ambulatory practice

: The experience of 800 bronchoscopies with the help of fibrobronchoscopes under anesthesia in the outpatient clinic is generalized. An original method of the artificial ventilation of the lungs with the aid of a specially elaborated by the authors attachment-injector to an ordinary endotracheal tube is described. According to the authors' data, fibrobronchoscopy under anesthesia with the injectional artificial ventilation of the lungs is a little-traumatic measure which permits obtaining a complete information on the character of changes in the tracheobroncheal tree of the patients.