Anesthetic Gas Leakage in Children During Tonsillectomy: a Comparison of Cuffed and Uncuffed Tracheal Tubes

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Fires and operating room pollution may occur when anesthesia gases leak into the oropharynx during airway surgery. Investigators sought to measure the concentrations of anesthetic gases that leak into the mouth of children undergoing adenotonsillectomy using cuffed and uncuffed tracheal tubes during spontaneous and controlled ventilation.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Inhalation; Nitrous Oxide; Sevoflurane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. American society of anesthesiologists physical status 1 and 2;

2. fasted

3. scheduled for elective adenotonsillectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

1. refusal of consent by parents

2. difficult tracheal intubation

3. craniofacial anomalies

4. gastroesophageal reflux

5. malignant hyperthermia

6. randomization to a tracheal tube is unacceptable.