Evaluation of i-gel in 100 patients at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, UK
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