Anesthesia

Laryngeal mask
Larynxmaske
 

 

From 1981 on, the English anesthesiologist Archibald BRAIN (* 1942) developed a mask that allows the airways to be kept open during anesthesia. If endotracheal intubation is impossible for technical reasons, but the face mask is too lengthy to maintain, anesthesia may be administered via this so-called "laryngeal mask" since 1991.



For singers, the new mask guarantees the integrity of the vocal cords, while they are regularly scratched during endotracheal intubation and it comes to hoarseness postoperatively.



In the intubation laryngeal mask (ILMA), a subsequent endotracheal tube can be inserted.

 

 

Weiterentwicklung

Bei der Intubationslarynxmaske (ILMA) kann nachträgliche ein Endotrachealtubus eingeführt werden.