ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024
A Comparison of Using Cuffed and Uncuffed Face Masks for Providing Manual Bag Ventilation in Elderly Patients with Obesity.
Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundWith the improvement of healthcare, the number of elderly individuals, including those with obesity, is increasing. The accumulation of various ventilation problems associated with the use of face masks in both these patient groups can pose a challenge even for an experienced anesthesiologist. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the ventilation of elderly patients with obesity using face masks, uncuffed or cuffed, and compare it with values obtained among patients with obesity who are not elderly. The secondary aim of the study was to demonstrate which of the two masks tested is better for elderly patients with android and gynoid obesity.
methodsThis study was conducted at University Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Lodz among 108 patients with obesity, 50 elderly and 58 non-elderly. Patients' BMIs ranged from 35.0 to 59.0. For the study, the uncuffed Intersurgical Eco Mask II and cuffed Ambu Ultra Seal face masks were used. Expiratory tidal volume and leakage obtained during the use of both types of masks were examined. The obtained data were analyzed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and supplemented with Wilcoxon test values.
resultsIn elderly patients with obesity, especially those with gynoid obesity, the use of the Intersurgical Eco Mask II is associated with better ventilation parameters than the Ambu Ultra Seal mask. Only in the case of elderly patients with android obesity did the use of the Ambu Ultra Seal mask yield similar results to the Intersurgical Eco Mask II.
conclusionsUncuffed face masks provide better ventilation parameters during manual bag ventilation in elderly patients with obesity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.