Surfactant administration via laryngeal mask airway (S‐LMA) vs surfactant administration through an endotracheal tube (S‐ETT): Pulmonary air leak
It is very uncertain whether surfactant administration via laryngeal mask airway (S‐LMA) changes pulmonary air leak, any (during first hospitalisation) Anytime to… compared with surfactant administration via endotracheal tube (ETT) with… (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Surfactant administration via laryngeal mask airway (S‐LMA) vs surfactant administration via endotracheal tube (ETT) with extubation at standard criteria (S‐ETT) Pulmonary air leak, any (during first hospitalisation) Anytime to discharge · preterm infants with or at risk of respiratory distress syndrome It is very uncertain whether surfactant administration via laryngeal mask airway (S‐LMA) changes pulmonary air leak, any (during first hospitalisation) Anytime to… compared with surfactant administration via endotracheal tube (ETT) with… (very low certainty). Laryngeal mask airway surfactant administration for prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants… (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 2.56 [0.11, 59.75] | 1 study · 48 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laryngeal mask airway surfactant administration for prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants with or at risk of… 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.