LMA Insertion

[ali anesthesia]

In the essence of clinical topics, I would like a discussion on how you insert LMAs. Do you do it with cuff totally deflated or partially inflated. I do it both ways, and am not sure if one is better than the other. Would love to hear other opinions. I will also cross-post this on another forum and compare the answers.

[cathys01]

I've seen one patient in my CVICU that came out of surgery with an LMA. He remained "intubated" for 24 hours. The reason for the LMA was that he was an extremely difficult intubation.

Of all the patients I've had, he complained the most after extubation. He said it was completely horrible, and he had been intubated with an ETT in the past.