i-gel – News & Events

Exciting news! Today we are launching the new range of paediatric sizes at the Association of Anaesthetists Winter Meeting in London. If you’re going to this event please come along and see us and get a first look at the four new sizes. You can also see what Professor Diemunsch of Strasbourg University Hospital said about the trials of paediatric i-gel. The video is now online. If you would like to try the paediatric sizes please fill in the quick enquiry form and we’ll be in contact with you.

An interview with eminent consultant and Chairman of the EAMS (European Airway Management Society) Professor Pierre Diemunsch, has recently been published in the journal Capital Medical Equipment. An initial global study, involving the first 50 children undergoing ventilation using the i-gel paediatric device, was carried out over two months. In the article Professor Diemunsch describes the paediatric i-gel as ‘…the most successful device to be used in place of the traditional laryngeal mask’.
You can download the article in full here

This case report, published in Paediatric Anesthesia, highlighted the case of a 10 year old child, weighing 30kg, scheduled for an elective pyeloplasty. A size 3 i-gel was inserted and secured after confirming correct placement and a suction catheter inserted down the gastric channel. The child was positioned prone and the correct positioning of i-gel reconfirmed by appropraite CO2 wave form, absence of audible leak and chest auscultation. At the end of the procedure, the child was returned to a supine position and i-gel removed after reversal. The patient recovered without any complications.

Reference:
Link to abstract
 Successful use of the i-gel airway in prone position surgery.
Senthil Kumar M, Pandey R, Khanna P. Paediatric Anaesthesia. 2009 Feb; 19(2): 176-7.