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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007 99(6):916-917; doi:10.1093/bja/aem322
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Airway management for tonsillectomy

A. J. Roper1,* and S. K. Laha2

1 Manchester, UK
2 Preston, UK

* E-mail: alexandra.roper@btinternet.com

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Editor—We read with interest the article1 on airway management for tonsillectomy, which concluded that there is widespread non-compliance in the use of disposable anaesthetic instruments. The authors quite correctly make the point that currently non-disposable surgical instruments are used. Surely, prion transmission is less likely to occur via anaesthetic than surgical instruments which are intrinsically contaminated with tissue. The current RCoA guidelines recommend the use of single-use . . . [Full Text of this Article]

T. M. Cook*

Bath, UK

* E-mail: timcook007@googlemail.com


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