Study shows LMA Gastro Airway with Cuff Pilot offers high airway insertion and endoscopy success rates.- Teleflex Inc.

Teleflex Incorporated , a leading global provider of medical devices, has announced that newly published research, in the February 2018 edition of the British Journal of Anesthesia , affirms the LMA Gastro Airway with Cuff Pilot Technology yields a high airway insertion success rate and endoscopy success rate when used in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.

The prospective study, by Nico Terblanche MD, FCA, MMED (Anes) and colleagues, who are independent from Teleflex , sought to determine the efficacy of the LMA Gastro Airway in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The study observed 292 patients with ASA physical status classification 1 or 2, and low risk of pulmonary aspiration, who received standardized LMA Gastro Airway insertion during the procedure. The study concluded that the endoscope and LMA Gastro Airway insertion success was 99%, in The peer-reviewed paper appears in the February 2018 issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia , which is the oldest and largest independent journal of anesthesia. The study author was Dr. Terblanche, who works in the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Royal Hobart Hospital in Tasmania, Australia .

Comment: The LMA Gastro Airway is the first laryngeal mask specifically designed to enable clinicians to proactively manage their patients� airways while facilitating direct endoscopic access via the integrated channel. With the airway in place, clinicians can easily direct an endoscope and provide a patent airway for patient safety, which can facilitate monitoring of end tidal CO2.

See- Terblanche, NCS, Middleton C." Efficacy of a new dual channel laryngeal mask airway, the LMA Gastro Airway, for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: a prospective observational study". British Journal of Anesthesia . 2018; 120(2):353-360.