The routine use of nasopharyngeal airway in the setting of monitored anesthesia care during gastrointestinal endoscopy: A multi-center single blinded randomized controlled trial

• Christian Raphael ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ Christian Raphael M.D and Nancy Abou Nafeh M.D have equal contribution as first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Nancy Abou Nafeh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ Christian Raphael M.D and Nancy Abou Nafeh M.D have equal contribution as first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Marc Moukarzel,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Thuraya HajAli,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Eliane Alhalabi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Aliyya Dabbous,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Raji Naamani,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-2123

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• Patrick Maroun,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Yasser Sheib,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Marie T. Aouad ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mm01@aub.edu.lb

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1713-3243

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• Rony Al Nawwar

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Lebanese American University Medical Center-Rizk Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

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