The reliability and validity of the Upper Lip Bite test compared with the Mallampati classification to predict difficult laryngoscopy: An external prospective evaluation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 284-289

  Eberhart, Leopold H J ^a   Arndt, Christian ^a   Cierpka, Thomas ^a   Schwanekamp, Judith ^a   Wulf, Hinnerk ^a   Putzke, Caroline ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORMACK AND LEHANE CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISOR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALLAMPATI CLASSIFICATION; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; UPPER LIP BITE TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; JAW RELATION RECORD; LARYNGOSCOPY; LIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 20744444689     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000154535.33429.36     Document Type: Article

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