Emergence times and airway reactions during general anaesthesia with remifentanil and a laryngeal mask airway: A multicentre randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Avoidance of airway complications and rapid emergence from anaesthesia are indispensable for the use of a laryngeal mask airway (LMA). Evidence from adequately powered randomised studies with a low risk of bias for the optimal anaesthetic in this context is limited.

Objective

We tested the hypothesis that when using remifentanil-based intra-operative analgesia, desflurane would be the most suitable anaesthetic: with noninferiority in the occurrence of upper airway complications and superiority in emergence times compared with sevoflurane or propofol.

Design

A randomised, multicentre, partially double-blinded, three-arm, parallel-group study.

Setting

Two university and two regional German hospitals, from February to October 2015.

Patients

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SUBMITTER: Kowark A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6072370 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature