Effects of laryngeal mask airway removal under different anesthesia states on pediatric airway complications: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Minhui Jiang, Zhihui Ma, Guanyu Chen, Shiyu Shu · 2026
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Description
Jiang and colleagues published a 2026 review pooling trials on a breathing mask choice in children. A laryngeal mask keeps a child's airway open during surgery without a throat tube. Doctors can remove it while the child sleeps deeply or after waking. The team pooled ten trials with 1,713 children to compare both styles.
Overall airway problems matched between the deep and awake removal groups. Deep removal, though, raised the odds of a blocked airway in children. That higher block risk appeared in both younger and older child groups. Deep removal did cut excess saliva problems by a wide margin in trials. Removing the mask under light sleep gave the safest airway balance overall. Gas choice for keeping children asleep did not change most risk patterns.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Minhui Jiang, Zhihui Ma, Guanyu Chen, Shiyu Shu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |