Introduction. It is strongly advised by the European Resuscitation Council not to interrupt chest compressions for airway management. An alternative to tracheal intubation is the use of a supraglottic airway device (SAD) which should shorten “hands-off” time during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Chest compression fraction (CCF) should be above 0.6 to ensure the probability of successful C...

OBJECTIVES Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is considered the gold standard for protecting the airway. Alternative devices for airway protection have been developed that can be used by untrained personnel, by those with less experience, and for when ETI is not possible. The main goals of our study were to evaluate the success rate and speed of insertion of different supraglottic airway devices and...

This program is sponsored by Teleflex Medical Incorporated Visit Clinical Foundations online at www.clinicalfoundations.org www.clinicalfoundations.org Management of the Difficult Airway Irene Osborn, MD Adequate airway management is crucial to the success of anesthesia, and special effort is often required for patients with difficult airways. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Tas...

Desflurane is the most pungent of the currently used volatile anesthetics. We assessed whether the incidence of perioperative upper respiratory events in children undergoing general anesthesia via a supraglottic airway is higher with desflurane than with sevoflurane as maintenance anesthetic.We retrospectively reviewed and analyzed the electronic medical records of consecutive children 1 to 15 ...

Background: The gold standard technique for preserving a patent airway throughout anaesthesia is tracheal intubation. I-gel relatively new addition to the SADs. has combined concept of non-cuffed SADs like SLIPA and gastric tube proseal LMA yet retaining shape laryngeal mask. Hence, we have compared ease insertion, number duration insertion attempts among two devices. Methods: This study was co...