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. 2012 Aug 7;12:18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2253-12-18

Table 4.

Blood on the devices of the intention-to-treat group

 
all insertions
successful insertions
failureswithoutblood
  blood inside blood outside blood inside blood outside  
i-gel™
8% (n = 3)
13% (n = 5)
8% (3 of 36)
14% (5 of 36)
2 of 2 (100%)
LMS-S
8% (n = 3)
13% (n = 5)
3% (1 of 37)
8% (3 of 37)
0 of 2 (0%)
LTS-D
20% (n = 8)
37.5% (n = 15)
14% (4 of 28)
35% (10 of 28)
7 of 12 (58%)
p-value = 0.132 = 0.006 = 0.216 = 0.01  

LMA-S = LMA-Supreme™; LTS-D = Laryngeal Tube Suction-D.