Use of the LMA during pediatric tonsil surgery does not appear to have any major disadvantages compared to use of the ETT. In fact, analysis of safety, comfort, complications, and postoperative problems suggests that LMA may be superior for some outcome variables such as coughing and gagging.
Use of spontaneous ventilation is more common among LMA patients, although the significance of this finding is uncertain.
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MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, Illinois, USA.
Laryngoscope. 2012 Feb;122(2):429-35
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