How does LarynxLock save costs?
Summary of Benefits
While the calculator demonstrates the potential for cost reduction in most clinical scenarios, the implementation of LarynxLock mainly focuses on the following aims in anesthesia and sedation practice:
- Patient Safety: The core objective of solving SAD leakage is the optimization of airway procedures to reduce the risks of complications.
- Clinical Efficiency: LarynxLock is designed to integrate into and improve existing airway management workflows with ease.
- Environmental Responsibility: The system reduces the ecological footprint compared to current conventional methods, promoting a green hospital.
Calculation References
Comparing costs between the current way of working and using LarynxLock in daily practice requires taking into account several factors. Additionally, the frequency of Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) leakage also varies across the patient population, the LMA used, and even the definition of “leakage” itself may vary according to the literature. In principle, the costs for airway management would involve materials (devices and medicine used), personnel, and operating room costs.
On this page, you can find the calculator on how using LarynxLock saves costs in practice. For this calculation, we assume the following costs:
| Category | Price | Description |
| Switching to endotracheal intubation (materials only) | €65 | includes an endotracheal tube and medications such as muscle relaxants |
| Changing SAD (OR costs, excluding the price of SAD) | €120 | assuming additional OR time of 4 minutes |
| Switching to endotracheal intubation (material and OR costs) | €815 | assuming additional OR time of 25 minutes |
Contact Information
LMA Optimizer BV
Oxfordlaan 55, 6229 EV Maastricht, The Netherlands
Arno Godding
info@larynxlock.com
+31 6 48410928
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