BMC anesthesiology
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Tracheal tube and laryngeal mask cuff pressure during anaesthesia - mandatory monitoring is in need.
To prevent endothelium and nerve lesions, tracheal tube and laryngeal mask cuff pressure is to be maintained at a low level and yet be high enough to secure air sealing. ⋯ For maintenance of epithelia flow and nerve function and at the same time secure air sealing, this evaluation indicates that the cuff pressure needs to be checked as part of the procedures involved in induction of anaesthesia and eventually checked during surgery.
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Four nursing mothers consented to anaesthesia for urgent surgery only on condition that their ability to breast feed would not be impaired. ⋯ These results, as well as the rapid elimination and absence of metabolism of xenon, are of great interest to nursing mothers. General anaesthesia with propofol for induction only, combined with remifentanil and xenon for maintenance, has not yet been described in breast feeding mothers.