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Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method

Damage of laryngeal mask airway and other supraglottic airway devices has always been a matter of concern. Although manufacturer recommends maximum 40 uses of LMA (and its congeners) but damage before 40 uses needs to be evaluated. We hereby, describe a novel method of repair of supraglottic devices...

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Autores principales: Singh, Manpreet, Bharti, Ritu, Kapoor, Dheeraj
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20565731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-33
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description Damage of laryngeal mask airway and other supraglottic airway devices has always been a matter of concern. Although manufacturer recommends maximum 40 uses of LMA (and its congeners) but damage before 40 uses needs to be evaluated. We hereby, describe a novel method of repair of supraglottic devices when damage occurs at mask inflation line or pilot balloon valve assembly.
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spelling pubmed-28940042010-06-30 Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method Singh, Manpreet Bharti, Ritu Kapoor, Dheeraj Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Letter to the Editor Damage of laryngeal mask airway and other supraglottic airway devices has always been a matter of concern. Although manufacturer recommends maximum 40 uses of LMA (and its congeners) but damage before 40 uses needs to be evaluated. We hereby, describe a novel method of repair of supraglottic devices when damage occurs at mask inflation line or pilot balloon valve assembly. BioMed Central 2010-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2894004/ /pubmed/20565731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-33 Text en Copyright ©2010 Singh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Singh, Manpreet
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Kapoor, Dheeraj
Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method
title Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method
title_full Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method
title_fullStr Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method
title_full_unstemmed Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method
title_short Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method
title_sort repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: a novel method
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20565731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-33
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