scholarly journals Assessment of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve During Thyroid Surgery With Laryngeal Mask Airway

2007 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Pott ◽  
John T. Swick ◽  
Brendan C. Stack
Keyword(s):  
Laryngeal Mask Airway ◽  
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Thyroid Surgery ◽  
Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Laryngeal Mask

Vocal fold palsy after use of the laryngeal mask airway

1996 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Daya ◽  
William J. Fawcett ◽  
Neil Weir
Keyword(s):  
Laryngeal Mask Airway ◽  
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Vocal Fold ◽  
Superior Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Laryngeal Mask ◽  
External Branch ◽  
Vocal Fold Palsy

AbstractWe report two cases of left vocal fold palsy following use of the laryngeal mask airway. In both cases anaesthesia was uneventful with a duration of about 60 minutes. It is proposed that high intra-cuff pressures induced during anaesthesia resulted in distension of the hypopharynx and subsequent neuropraxia of the motor branches of the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve.

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