i-gel - News & Events

Interim results of a study conducted at the Royal United Hospital in Bath were presented at the Difficult Airway Society Annual Meeting in Portsmouth last year. The completed study, entitled, ‘Evaluation of the size 4 i-gel airway in one hundred non-paralysed patients’, has just been published in Anaesthesia. The objective of the study was to assess the ‘ ease of use of the device, the quality of the airway achieved and any associated complications.’ The results were described as ‘very encouraging’ and in the discussion section, the authors commented that, ‘The i-gel was successfully inserted in all patients and allowed effective controlled ventilation in 98%. Rates of failure, manipulations required and complications were very low compared to other devices we have studied with similar methodology’. The complete study can be downloaded from this location

We’ve just added two new video clips, one shows pre-insertion preparation and the other is an overview on using the gastric channel. We hope you enjoy the clips and if you would like to know more or require the full video as a training resource then please contact us using the ‘Quick Enquiry’ form on the home page.

A new study from Bath and Gloucester in the UK evaluated the performance of i-gel in manikins and anaesthetised patients when used by novices. The i-gel was deployed with minimal evidence of patient trauma and 100% insertion success.

The authors summarised the results: ‘i-gel is rapidly inserted in both manikins and patients by novice users and compares favourably to other supraglottic airways available. Further work determining safety and efficacy during cardio-pulmonary resuscitation is required’
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18557971