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TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

The Laryngeal Tube S: A Modified Simple Airway Device

Volker Dörges, MD^*, Hartmut Ocker, MD, Volker Wenzel, MD, Markus Steinfath, MD^*, and Klaus Gerlach, MD

*Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Kiel, Kiel; Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; and Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Volker Dörges, University Hospital Kiel, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Schwanenweg 21, 24105 Kiel, Germany. Address e-mail to v.doerges{at}t-online.de

IMPLICATIONS: The Laryngeal Tube S, fitted with a second lumen serving for suctioning and free gastric drainage, but not for ventilation, as with the Combitube, can be inserted without additional equipment, and was proven in a preliminary clinical trial to effectively ventilate patients with respiratory arrest and to evacuate stomach contents.

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