Clinical performance of airway management with the i-gel and laryngeal mask airway supreme in geriatric patients: a prospective and randomized study.
Conclusions: Both devices can be safely applied to geriatric patients with similar success rates and oropharyngeal leak pressures. However, inserting the i-gel™ was faster and easier compared to the LMA-S in paralyzed elderly patients.
PMID: 30343563 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Korean Journal of Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Korean J Anesthesiol Source Type: research
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