Kowark A, et al. - In this study involving patients aged 18 to 75 years, ASA physical status I to III, BMI less than 35 kg m^-2 and fluent in German, researchers tested the hypothesis that when using remifentanil-based intra-operative analgesia, desflurane would be the most suitable anaesthetic: with noninferiority in the occurrence of upper airway complications and superiority in emergence times compared with sevoflurane or propofol. Findings revealed that compared with either sevoflurane or propofol, desflurane was related to a significantly faster emergence and noninferiority in the incidence of intra-operative cough when a remifentanil infusion was used for intra-operative analgesia in association with a laryngeal mask airway.