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The correlations between the average endotracheal tube size and depth curves and the growth charts, developed by the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and the Japanese Association for Human Auxology, were determined using Pearson\u2019s correlation coefficient for the children with heights and weights within\u2009\u00b1\u20092 standard deviations (SD) of the growth chart. For children under 6\u00a0years of age in the \u2212\u00a02 to \u2212\u00a03 SD, below \u2212\u00a03 SD, and\u2009\u00b1\u20092 SD groups\n                      <jats:bold>,<\/jats:bold>\n                      a linear mixed model (LMM) was used to model age-related changes in tube size and depth while accounting for clustering by anesthesiologist.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 6460 patients were included. In females, uncuffed tube size showed correlations of 0.97 and 0.94 with the height and weight growth charts, respectively; the corresponding correlations for depths were 0.95 and 0.92. In males, the corresponding correlations for size were 0.97 and 0.93, and the corresponding correlations for depth were 0.94 and 0.90. The LMM that accounted for the growth rate of the children showed R-squared values of 0.80 for tube size and 0.76 for insertion depth.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The curves for the average endotracheal tube size and depth stratified by age showed concordance with the growth chart.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00540-026-03865-y","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,10]],"date-time":"2026-08-10T13:22:45Z","timestamp":1786368165000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Selection of endotracheal tube size and insertion depth according to pediatric growth charts and physique in Japan"],"prefix":"10.1007","author":[{"given":"Shinichi","family":"Akabane","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0770-2860","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Masaaki","family":"Asamoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Seiichi","family":"Azuma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mariko","family":"Ezaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mikiya","family":"Otsuji","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kanji","family":"Uchida","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"3865_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"685","DOI":"10.1007\/BF03017744","volume":"55","author":"EA Harris","year":"2008","unstructured":"Harris EA, Arheart KL, Penning DH. 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