Geriatric Patients and Laryngeal Mask Unique

Number of Participants With Successful Laryngeal Mask Placement

As a result of rises in living standards quality of life is progressively increasing.
 Combined with developments in anesthesia, surgical techniques and medication allowing more
 difficult and complicated interventions to be carried out, elderly patients are encountered
 more often in daily anesthetic practice.Reduced tone in the upper airway of geriatric
 patients increases the possibility of airway obstruction. In old patients with no teeth,
 sunken cheeks may make ventilation with a mask ineffective; perhaps even impossible.
 
 In addition to our observations that Laryngeal mask (LM) is more difficult to place in older
 patients, in the literature there are very few studies on the use of LM in older patients.
 Sixty percent of patients over the age of 65 have no teeth. Ventilation with a mask is more
 difficult for patients without teeth compared to those with teeth. Laryngeal mask is an
 alternative airway device for patients without teeth when the face mask does not sit
 correctly.
 
 The aim of this study is primarily to measure the success of placement on first try, ease and
 duration of insertion and oropharyngeal leak pressure of laryngeal mask Unique (LMU) in
 patients 65 years of age and above dentulous and edentulous elderly patients. The secondary
 aim is to compare the effects on the hemodynamic response occurring during placement.