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A Comparison of Seal in Seven Supraglottic Airway Devices Using a Cadaver Model of Elevated Esophageal Pressure
Author(s) -
Sven Bercker,
Willi Schmidbauer,
Thomas Volk,
G. Bogusch,
Hans Peter Bubser,
Mario Hensel,
Thoralf Kerner
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181602ae1
Subject(s) - medicine , airway , larynx , esophagus , intubation , laryngeal mask airway , laryngeal masks , anesthesia , cadaver , mascara , surgery , tracheal tube , cricoid pressure
Supraglottic airway devices are increasingly important in clinical anesthesia and prehospital emergency medicine, but there are only few data to assess the risk for aspiration. We designed this study to compare the seal of seven supraglottic airway devices in a cadaver model of elevated esophageal pressure.

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