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A COMPARISON BETWEEN BASKA MASK AND I-GEL

 FOR SHORT DURATION SURGERIES

Patients  undergoing  general  anaesthesia  should    have a secured airway  especially  in long  duration  surgeries.  However,  for shorter surgical  procedures, the  airway  can be kept  patent  by the  use of  supraglottic  airway devices  without  administering  neuromuscular  blockers  thus lesser  impact   on patient’s  hemodynamic s  and  lesser   trauma  to airway.  Also   these  devices  have  high  airway seal  pressure  with low  resistance  to gas  flow , low  incidence of aspiration  and complications .  These   are  divided  into   first , second  and third  generation airway  devices.  The newest include Baska  mask   and  I-GEL  which  have  a cuffless sealing  mechanism  due to its thermoelastic  material  which  can expand  on heat , also   preventing  injury   to airway  and problems  of  maintaining  sealing  pressure . Both devices have an airway channel separate from gastric channel  to provide  additional safety in laparoscopic  surgeries . They  also  have  laryngoprotective    properties.

I-GEL which is a second generation supraglottic airway device made from styrene-ethylene- butylene. It has an additional bite block. It is also comparable to LMAs and proseal LMAs in insertion rates and sealing pressures.

Baska mask, introduced by Kanag and Meena Baska , a 3^rd generational airway with one gastric channel and a pharyngeal channel with a bite block. Various studies and journals supporting this thesis work has been done . Studies have also been perfomed on laparoscopic surgeries , minor urological  and gynaecological procedures, in obese and spontaneously ventilating patients.

Shamugavelu et al. conducted a study comparing both i-Gel and Baska mask in laparoscopic surgeries and concluded that both airways are comparable with each other in larascopic surgeries and i-Gel is quicker to insert whilst Baska gave a good airway seal.

Our study will compare Insertion time, Number of attempts required to insert, oropharyngeal leak pressure between the two devices. We will also assess hemodynamic stability of the patient and analyse intraoperative and post operative airway related complications.