BJA Advance Access originally published online on July 9, 2004
British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004 93(4):579-582; doi:10.1093/bja/aeh228
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Aspiration and the laryngeal mask airway: three cases and a review of the literature
1 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria. 2 James Cook University, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Cairns Base Hospital, Australia. 3 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
* Corresponding author. E-mail: jbrimaco{at}bigpond.net.au
The primary limitation of the laryngeal mask airway (LMA®)
is that it does not reliably protect the lungs from regurgitated stomach content. We describe three cases of aspiration associated with the LMA, including the first brain injury, the first death, and the first associated with the intubating LMA, and review the 20 specific case reports of aspiration associated with the LMA that we were able to find described in the literature.
This article is accompanied by Editoral II.
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