Indications
Ensure airway patency
- Prolonged operations
- Difficult access to airway
- Excessive movement of head and neck
- Difficulty achieving clear airway with laryngeal mask airway
- Situations where a major intraoperative complication occurs (haemorrhage, malignant hyperthermia)
Protect airway from aspiration
- Risk of regurgitation
- Extensive bleeding
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