i-gel offers controlled ventilation and low NFT 24 Sep 2009

This interesting paper, published in Resuscitation, compared i-gel to another supraglottic airway in a manikin cardiac arrest scenario. The study evaluated the effect use of these devices had on No-flow time (NFT). The authors stated that ‘an ideal supraglotic airway should be inserted rapidly with minimal training and it should enable controlled ventilation’. i-gel met these criteria during resuscitation in a manikin and NFT was kept as low as possible, consistent with ERC guidelines.

Reference
Link to abstract
Influence of airway management strategy on ‘no-flow-time’ in a standardized single rescuer manikin scenario (a comparison between LTS-D and i-gel: Wiese CHR, Bahr J, Popov AF, Hinz JM, Graf BM. Resuscitation 80 (2009) 100-103.