Does endo-tracheal tube clamping prevent air leaks and maintain positive end-expiratory pressure during the switching of a ventilator in a patient in an intensive care unit? A bench study

• Emanuele Turbil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anesthesiology and Intensive care, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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• Nicolas Terzi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Médecine Intensive Réanimation, C.H.U de Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France, University of Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France

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• Carole Schwebel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Médecine Intensive Réanimation, C.H.U de Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France, University of Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France

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• Martin Cour,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Médecine Intensive-Réanimation, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, University of Lyon, Lyon, France

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• Laurent Argaud,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Médecine Intensive-Réanimation, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, University of Lyon, Lyon, France

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• Claude Guérin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: claude.guerin@chu-lyon.fr

  Affiliations Médecine Intensive-Réanimation, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, University of Lyon, Lyon, France, INSERM, Créteil, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4700-6672

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