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Abstract Modern anesthesia is safe, versatile and indispensable to the patient. Nowadays, quality assurance of anesthesia is becoming increasingly important for improving postoperative outcome. Therefore, efforts are on to decrease the incidence and severity of other anesthesia-related complications such as postoperative sore throat (POST), apart from the management of postoperative pain. POST is a well-recognized complication that remains unresolved in patients undergoing tracheal intubation for general anesthesia (GA) with a reported incidence of 6.6-90%.It also increases the duration of hospital stay, especially in day care surgeries |