The Necessity of Routine Mask Ventilation in Adults

Summary

The mask ventilation is a necessary procedure to provide oxygenation before the tracheal intubation although the gastric insufflation occurs during the mask ventilation. Sugammadex, which is recently introduced, enables the use of high-dose muscle relaxant without concerning the delayed recovery of neuromuscular blockade. It seems that there is no need to perform the mask ventilation in adults with normal airway if the investigators use high-dose muscle relaxant for the anesthetic induction because adequate muscle relaxation can be achieved within 1-2 minutes. Therefore, the investigators hypothesized that routine mask ventilation is not needed in adult patients with normal airway. The investigators will compare the incidence of desaturation and gastric insufflation between the patients with mask ventilation and the patients without mask ventilation.

Timeline

Start

2015-04-28

Primary completion

2015-11-23

Completion

2015-11-23

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.