Reduction of Postoperative Sore Throat with New Endotracheal Tube Cuffs 

Relative Assessment of Ketamine Nebulisation and Ketamine Gargle in Attenuating Post-Operative Sore Throat

“…Along with causing discomfort to the patient, it prolongs the post-operative stay by 14 minutes compared with people who did not complain of POST [2] The overall incidence of POST is 21-65% [3][4][5] Many studies have shown that gargling with ketamine prior to induction is one of the effective means of reducing the incidence and severity of POST by 50% and only one study on pre induction nebulised ketamine had shown decreased in the incidence of POST. The present study is done to compare the effectiveness of preoperative ketamine gargle with preoperative ketamine nebulisation in reducing the incidence and severity of POST.…”

Preventive effect of ketamine gargling for postoperative sore throat after endotracheal intubation

“…Generally, POST is resolved spontaneously without specific treatment; however, many patients complain of POST after general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation. Several pharmacological and non-pharmacological trials have been performed to decrease POST [1,[10][11][12][13][14]. Kalil et al [15] reported that preoperative ketamine and aspirin gargle was the most promising pharmacological method for providers practicing in the United States.…”

Assessment of the efficacy of dexamethasone, lignocaine or placebo in the prevention of post intubation sore throat

“…This was supported by one study [8]. But many studies did not agree with this finding [6,7,11,12,[17][18][19][20]. In our IJBR (2015) 6 (07) www.ssjournals.com study the maximum duration of anaesthesia was 758 minutes.…”

“…Many studies have found that the incidence of postoperative sore throat did not correlate with the age of the patient [6,11,14,18,20]. But Sprague et al [19] have found that the postoperative sore throat incidence was greater in the under forty age group than in the older group.…”