<b>The Cuffed Oropharyngeal Airway, a Novel Adjunct to the Management of Difficult Airways</b>

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A cuffed oropharyngeal airway (COPA) is a new airway device, which is fundamentally a regular oropharyngheal airway with a large cuff attached around the distal end. The cuff separates the tongue from the posterior pharyngeal wall to create a patent airway. Proximally it has a standard 15-mm adapter connectable to a breathing circuit. Like a laryngeal mask airway (LMA), it is intended primarily for use in spontaneously breathing patients who are not at risk of aspiration of gastric contents. Consistent with the preliminary reports, by others, 1,2 our initial experiences with COPA in more than 100 patients have been favorable. We report here our experience of using this new device in two patients requiring general anesthesia for whom fiberoptic intubation was performed with the COPA in place.

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  • Anesthesiology

    Anesthesiology 88 1677-1679, 1998-06-01

    Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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