title: The airway in day surgery.
abstract: Securing an adequate airway and ventilation is of outmost importance in day case anesthesia/sedation, as elsewhere in anesthesia. Since its introduction, the LMA has made a major contribution to the development of safe and efficacious airway management in elective day case anesthesia. It has also become increasingly popular in laparoscopy in selected patients. The use of a LMA should always be based on individual patient assessment, and a rescue plan for inadequate airway and or ventilation should be in place. Intubation is still the technique of choice in emergency situations.
authors.affiliation: Karolinska Institutet, Institution for Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Foot and Ankle Surgical Centre, Stockholm, Sweden. jan.jakobsson@ki.se
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jakobsson
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D000758:Anesthesia; D006801:Humans; D017214:Laryngeal Masks