Airway protection with the ProSeal laryngeal mask airway in a child.
We describe a case where a size 2 ProSeal laryngeal mask airway successfully channelled regurgitated fluid away from the respiratory tract in a 5-year-old child following an inguinal hernia repair.
Keller
Christian
C
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Brimacombe
Joseph
J
von Goedecke
Achim
A
Lirk
Philipp
P
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D017214:Laryngeal Masks; D008297:Male; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration / Q000517:prevention & control*