METHOD OF PLACING FLEXIBLE REINFORCED LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAY Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61M16/06 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to anaesthesiology and resuscitation, and can be used if placing of a flexible reinforced laryngeal mask airway required. That is ensured by preoxygenation through a face mask for two minutes. Then a patient is placed in a "sniffing" position with a head supported by a cotton roll. The laryngeal mask airway is placed with its aperture upwards and arranging a mask tip on the centre of front incisors on an internal surface of a patient's mouth with pressing it to a hard palate with a third finger. After that, the mouth cavity is examined, and the LMA is moved downwards with pressing within a tube and mask junction to enable the mask passing near a tongue and falling in a pharynx. If observing resistance behind the tongue, the mask is turned around 90° with the aperture to the left and placed back into the initial position after passing the obstacle. Mask cuff is inflated with making sure that a black line is directed backwards and found in the middle.

EFFECT: method allows providing easy placing of the laryngeal mask airway with simultaneously reduced risk of hypoxia and laryngopharynx damages during mask placing.

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