Clinical Study
Intubation Success through I-Gel® and Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway® Using Flexible Silicone Tubes: A Randomised Noninferiority Trial
Table 2
Device insertion and intubation parameters.
| Variable | Group G () Median (95% CI) | Group I () Median (95% CI) | value (sig < 0.05) |
| Number of SGA attempts | 1.00 (1.19; 2.01) | 1.00 (1.22; 1.98) | 0.171 | Ease of SGA insertion | 1.00 (1.05; 1.75) | 1.00 (1.01; 1.39) | 0.755 | Time to SGA placement | 9.28 (7.99; 13.25) | 8.50 (7.54; 10.86) | 0.860 | Ease of intubation | 2.00 (1.41; 1.91) | 1.00 (1.17; 1.46) | 0.017 | Intubation success | 58.3% () | 90% () | 0.000 | Time to intubation | 16.10 (13.49; 18.84) | 7.90 (7.81; 13.87) | 0.007 | Number of intubation attempts | 1.00 (0.94; 1.33) | 1.00 (0.95; 1.15) | 0.027 | Attempts at intubation; number (percentage) | | | | One | 22 (36.67) | 41 (68.3) | 0.001 | Two | 8 (13.33) | 9 (15.0) | Three | 5 (8.3) | 4 (6.67) | VAS 0 | 1.00 (0.36; 1.37) | 1.00 (1.04; 2.16) | 0.833 | Dysphagia 0 | 1.00 (0.92; 1.21) | 1.00 (1.04; 1.46) | 0.853 | VAS 24 | 0.00 ; 0.43) | 0.50 (0.28; 0.92) | 0.052 | Dysphagia 24 | 0.00 (; 0.15) | 0.00 (; 0.06) | 0.299 |
|
|
SGA: supraglottic airway device; VAS: visual analogue scale; indicates .
|