The laryngeal mask airway (LMA) is a relatively new device that was brought into clinical practice in the 1980s. It was conceived, designed, and developed between 1981 and 1988 by Dr. Archie Brain, a British anesthesiologist who felt that a component for airway management was missing. The laryngeal mask was conceived to provide the bridge between the face mask and the endotracheal tube. The con...

The pandemic year of 2020 brought unparalleled and swift changes to health care processes within Australia. All registered nurses in the Post Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU) a regional tertiary referral hospital had make routine personal protective equipment (PPE) practice accommodate safer environment for both staff patients. Changes PPE practices included addition heat moisture exchange (HME) fi...

results in the i-gel group, the success rate was 66.7% for placement on the first attempt, 16.7% for the second, and 3.33% for the third attempt. in the lma group, the success rates were 80.6% and 12.9% for the first and second attempts, respectively. failure in placement occurred in four cases in the i-gel and two cases in lma groups. the mean insertion time was not significantly different bet...

results sore throat was recorded in 32.9% of patients with lma and 44.2% of intubated patients, but it was not statistically significant (fisher’s exact test = 0.158). hoarseness was recorded in 3.5% of patients with lma and 24.4% of intubated patients (fisher’s exact test = 0.000). in 1.2% of patients with lma cough was recorded; it was also seen in 7% of the intubated patients (fisher’s exact...

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PURPOSE To evaluate a comprehensive scoring system which combines clinical manifestations of Pierre Robin Sequence (PRS) including severity of breathing difficulties, body weight and preoperative Cormack-Lehane grade, for its correlation with perioperative PRS airway management decision. DESIGN Forty PRS children were retrospectively recruited after surgery. Specialists examined all subjects ...

background: various studies are seeking to find new methods to improve techniques of laryngeal mask airway (lma) insertion and reduce possible complications. in this study, we embarked on a clinical study to investigate the advantages of a new insertion method of laryngeal mask and to compare it with the classic method. materials and methods: two hundred patients aged 20-60 years old in 2012 we...