Supraglottic airway devices are established tools in clinical anaesthesia practice, and short surgeries that do not require tracheal intubation is a relevant indication for the use of such devices. They can be inserted without the use of neuromuscular blocking agents and even used during mechanical ventilation. Although avoidance of neuromuscular blockade is one of the specific advantages of supraglottic devices, 1 neuromuscular blockade is sometimes required during the intraoperative period to improve surgical conditions (eg to prevent the obturator jerk during transurethral resection of bladder tumours). When neuromuscular blocking agents were administered
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