Emergence Characteristics Comparing Endotracheal Tube to Reinforced Laryngeal Mask Airway During Endoscopic Sinus Surgery - A Randomised Controlled Study

Overview

Journal Indian J Anaesth

Specialty Anesthesiology

Date 2024 May 20

PMID 38764963

Authors

Vasanth Raokadam

Venkatesan Thiruvenkatarajan

George S Bouras

Alex Zhang

Alkis Psaltis

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Abstract

Background And Aims: During endoscopic sinus surgery, anaesthetic conditions significantly impact the intraoperative surgical field and bleeding during emergence. While the endotracheal tube (ETT) has been traditionally used in sinus surgery, a reinforced laryngeal mask airway (RLMA) that produces less upper airway stimulation may result in smoother emergence.

Methods: A randomised controlled trial of 72 patients undergoing elective sinus surgery was conducted, with the allocation of airway technique to either ETT with a throat pack or RLMA. The primary outcome measure was emergence time, measured by time to opening eyes on commands at the cessation of anaesthesia, and the secondary outcomes were time to removal of airway device, remifentanil use, procedure times, mean arterial pressure (MAP) and the RLMA grade of blood contamination. The continuous variables were analysed using Student's -tests and discrete variables, count tables were analysed using Fisher's exact tests.

Results: There was no significant difference in the emergence time between the ETT and RLMA groups ( = 0.83). Remifentanil use was significantly higher in the ETT group than in the RLMA group ( = 0.022). The ETT group showed a significantly increased total anaesthetic time ( = 0.01). MAP was not significant during preinduction, maintenance or post-RMLA removal. The highest grade of contamination was grade 2 in RLMA. RLMA had lower rates of postoperative adverse events.

Conclusions: RLMA comparable to ETT in terms of emergence time. The RMLA group had lower remifentanil use, anaesthesia duration and fewer postoperative adverse events such as cough and throat pain.

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