British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1988, Vol. 60, No. 1 112-115
© 1988 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia
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ASSESSMENT OF A NEW NASOPHARYNGEAL AIRWAY
Department of Anaesthetics, United Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals Guy's Campus, St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RT.
A new design of nasopharyngeal airway, which incorporates an introducer, was compared with a standard red rubber airway. The new airway was more frequently of the correct length, but the incidence of bleeding (12.5%) was not significantly different from that with the red rubber airway (27.5%).