“Poor Man’s LMA”

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LMA: a big choice.

OBESITY is becoming more common in the general population, and consequently more obese patients are undergoing anesthesia and surgery. Obesity is associated with intraand post-operative respiratory complications. Particularly in obesity, general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation quickly produces atelectasis at induction. The atelectasis formation can be prevented or attenuated by using a ...

Performance Analysis of BUNSD-LMA

The IETF is developed Network Mobility Basic Support (NEMO BSP) to support session continuity and reachability to the Mobile Network Nodes (MNNs) as one unit while they move. While NEMO move and attached to different networks, it needs to register the MNNs. This function of registration decreases the performance of NEMO. NEMO BSP suffers from some challenges. The most important of these challen...

Removal of LMA in children.

Sir,—The article of Kitching, Walpole and Blogg 1 investigating removal of the laryngeal mask in anaesthetized and awake children merits further discussion. At our hospital we routinely use the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) in the general paediatric population for various ear, nose and throat (ENT) procedures. 2 Our standard practice is in accordance with those of both the inventor and the manufa...

Thiopentone or propofol for LMA insertion?

We read the article by Bapat et al., 1 with interest. They demonstrated the good quality of laryngeal mask (LMA) insertion with midazolam-thiopentone and the poor conditions with lidocainethiopentone. We would like to bring to your attention two studies we published earlier this year. In the first 2 we showed that topical 40 mg lidocaine followed by 5 mg-kg -1 thiopentone produced conditions fo...