The Indian Anaesthetists' Forum (Apr 2010)

Laryngeal Mask Airway Prevented Pulmonary Aspiration in an Obese Patient with Massive Gastric Regurgitation

  • Sina Ghaffaripour,
  • Saman Asadi,
  • Hilda Mahmoudi,
  • Pegah Katibeh

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 9
p. 1

Abstract

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Laryngeal Mask Airway is used for airway management in anaesthesia and in emergency medicine. Aspiration of gastric contents with LMA occurs in 2 per 10000 patients. It is almost similar to tracheal intubation in elective patients with the incidence of 1.25 per 10000 patients

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