TITLE:
Comparison of Postoperative Throat and Neck Complaints after the Use of the i-Gel versus the Traditional Laryngeal Mask
AUTHORS:
Ana Sofía Del Castillo Sardi, Marion Britto, Janeth Rangel
KEYWORDS:
i-Gel; Laryngeal Mask; Cervical Pain; Sore Throat
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Anesthesiology,
Vol.3 No.4,
June
4,
2013
ABSTRACT:
Introduction: One of the most important jobs of an anesthesiology is to preserve an adequate
gaseous exchange. With the coming in the 80’s of the laryngeal mask airway, a
less invasive technique was introduced for this end. There are a lot of
variants of these supraglotic issues, being the i-gel a no inflate mask; witch
principle is to provide a perilaryngel stamp that reduced the incidence of sore
throat, cervical pain compared with the traditional laryngeal mask. Method: A group of 121 ASA I-II
patients with general anesthesia administration, where divided in two groups,
one of 60 patients where a traditional laryngeal mask airway was used, and a
second group of 61 patients where an i-gel mask was used. In both groups the
presence of postoperative sore throat, cervical pain and dysphonia; number of attempts
and pressure in the airway tract was measured. Results: The group of patients where the i-gel was used present lower incidence of sore
throat (11% vs 27%) and cervical pain (3% vs 9%) and lower values of pressure
on the airway tract compared with the group in which the conventional laryngeal
mask was used. On the other hand there was no difference in the presence of
dysphonia, trauma or number of attempts used to insert the mask. Conclusions: The i-gel larygeal mask
demonstrated to be a safe issue, with low incidence of morbidity to
administrated general anesthesia.