Anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, surgeons and others who work in operating rooms are being warned by the US Food and Drug Administration to be on the lookout for patient airway obstruction when using silicone-based electromyogram (EMG) endotracheal tubes made by Medtronic PLC.
The tubes “provide an airway for patient ventilation and allow for intraoperative monitoring of EMG activity of the laryngeal musculature...






