Does the ProSeal laryngeal mask airway prevent aspiration of regurgitated fluid?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1017-1020

  Keller, Christian ^a   Brimacombe, Joseph ^b   Kleinsasser, Axel ^b   Loeckinger, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DRAIN; ENDOTRACHEAL CUFF; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; FOOD REGURGITATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; LARYNGEAL MASK; LUNG ASPIRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033795102     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200010000-00046     Document Type: Article

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