T. Van Zundert

The LMA-SupremeTM as an intubation conduit in patients with known difficult airways: a prospective evaluation study

Many extraglottic airway devices allow the direct passage of an adult‐sized tracheal tube, but this is not possible with the LMA‐SupremeTM. We evaluated the feasibility of using the LMA‐SupremeTM as a conduit for intubation in patients with known difficult airways.

‘Failed supraglottic airway’: an algorithm for suboptimally placed supraglottic airway devices based on videolaryngoscopy

Anaesthetists would not accept malpositioned tracheal tubes resulting in leak, inadequate ventilation, high airway pressures, or one-sided lung ventilation. Yet it is our impression that many, if not the majority, of surgeries are conducted with blindly placed and suboptimally sited supraglottic airway devices (SADs). The anaesthetic community appears to accept much lower standards for SAD placement than for tracheal tube placement.