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Value of Anthropometric Measurements in Predicting Difficult Laryngoscopy in Children: A Prospective, Observational Study

Journal of Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Ensuring airway security carries the utmost importance in anesthesia. Specific predictive tests or findings for difficult airway are not defined for children under 3 years old.
Gaye Aydın, Sanem Güntürk, Meltem Çakmak, Yücel Karaman, Mustafa Onur Öztan, Pervin Sutaş Bozkurt, Gizem Cabbaroğlu, Rıza Hakan Erbay   +7 more
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Vizualizacija dišnog puta: oči vide ono što mozak zna [PDF]

, 2016
Airway management is basic for anesthesia practice, and sometimes it can represent a really dramatic scenario for both the patient and the physicians.
Giulio Frova, Ivana Zdravković, Massimiliano Sorbello   +2 more
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Laryngeal lymphoma : the high and low grades of rare lymphoma involvement sites [PDF]

, 2014
The larynx is an extremely rare site of involvement by lymphomatous disease.We present two cases of isolated laryngeal high-grade and another low-grade lymphoma, together with a literature review of laryngeal lymphoma management.peer ...
Azzopardi, Charles Paul, Betts, Alexandra, Camilleri, David J., Degaetano, James, Farrugia, Eric, Gatt, Alexander, Magri, Claude, Refalo, Nicholas   +7 more
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Sternomental displacement and neck circumference: a new look for the neck as a difficult airway predictor in obese surgical patients—a cohort study

Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology, 2023
Background Sternomental displacement (SMDD) is a surrogate indicator for cervical spine (C-spine) mobility. SMDD revealed good potential to predict difficult airway, but its validity in obese patients is not evident.
Antony Gorgy, Abeer Ahmed, Mohamed Atef, Nevan Mekawy, Wael Sami, Heba Nagy   +5 more
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Preoperative ultrasonographic evaluation of the airway vis-à-vis the bedside airway assessment to predict potentially difficult airway on direct laryngoscopy in adult patients—a prospective, observational study

Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology, 2023
Background Unanticipated difficult airway remains a challenge for the anesthesiologist with no established standard criteria to predict difficulty in intubation.
Anita Rajeev Chhabra, Sindhuja Thannappan, Hemalata R. Iyer   +2 more
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C-MAC videolaryngoscope compared with direct laryngoscopy for rapid sequence intubation in an emergency department: A randomised clinical trial [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND Airway management in the emergency room can be challenging when patients suffer from life-threatening conditions. Mental stress, ignorance of the patient's medical history, potential cervical injury or immobilisation and the presence of vomit
Brueesch, Martin, Goliasch, Georg, Ruetzler, Kurt, Schlaepfer, Martin, Seifert, Burkhardt, Spahn, Donat R, Sulser, Simon, Ubmann, Dirk   +7 more
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Forces acting on the maxillary incisor teeth during laryngoscopy using the Macintosh laryngoscope [PDF]

, 1994
We determined the forces on the maxillary incisors during routine laryngoscopy in 65 adult patients. The forces were measured by a strain gauge based sensor positioned between the handle and the blade of the laryngoscope. The mean maximal force acting on
Bucx, M.J.L. (Martin), Erdmann, W. (Wilhelm), Geel, R.T.M. (R. T M) van, Giessen, H. (H.) van de, Robers, C. (C.), Snijders, C.J. (Chris), Stijnen, Th. (Theo)   +6 more
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Pediatric Trainees Managing a Difficult Airway: Comparison of Laryngeal Mask Airway, Direct, and Video-Assisted Laryngoscopy

OTO Open, 2017
Objective Difficult airway management is a key skill required by all pediatric physicians, yet training on multiple modalities is lacking. The objective of this study was to compare the rate of, and time to, successful advanced infant airway placement ...
Art Ambrosio MD, Kastley Marvin MD, Colleen Perez MD, Chelsie Byrnes MD, Cory Gaconnet MD, Chris Cornelissen DO, Matthew Brigger MD, MPH   +6 more
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Evaluation of the reliability of the upper lip bite test and the modified mallampati test in predicting difficult intubation under direct laryngoscopy in apparently normal patients: a prospective observational clinical study

BMC Anesthesiology, 2022
Background and aims Difficult endotracheal intubation is one of the most challenging operations in anesthesia. How to better predict difficult airway and make corresponding preparations to reduce the occurrence of accidents is a difficult task faced by ...
Lin-yu Wang, Kang-da Zhang, Zhi-hua Zhang, Dan-xu Zhang, Huan-liang Wang, Feng Qi   +5 more
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PREDICTION OF DIFFICULT LARYNGOSCOPY BY ULTRASOUND GUIDED VALUATION OF ANTERIOR NECK SOFT TISSUE THICKNESS. [PDF]

Background : The major responsibility of the anaesthesiologist is to provide adequate ventilation to the patient. Most vital element for this is the airway.
Abhay Sancheti, Joti Kanoujiya, S. Swami.   +2 more
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