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and Gertraud Krystof (Vienna, Austria), and will be regularly updated to take account of comments on this version.
Last updated: August 6, 2003
In 1992, Greenberg and Toung communicated a new oropharyngeal airway designed for spontaneous breathing or controlled ventilation during general anesthesia (presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting). This modified Guedel oropharyngeal airway was supplied with an asymmetrical distal cuff and a proximal 15-mm standard connector (color-coded for identification of th size). The cuffed oropharyngeal airway (manufactured by Mallinckrodt Medical, Athlone, Ireland; now incorporated in the Tyco Health Care Group) was a disposable airway (made of plastic material) and became commercially available in different sizes. Unfortunably, the production of this airway has recently stopped and when the remainig stocks are exhausted it will no longer be available.
Cuffed Oropharyngeal Airway (Mallinckrodt Medical, Object Number 1) |
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