Craniocervical extension improves the specificity and predictive value of the mallampati airway evaluation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1256-1259

  Mashour, George A ^a,b,c   Sandberg, Warren S ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Clinics 309   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; OROPHARYNX; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL;

EID: 33750351798     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000237402.03329.3b     Document Type: Article

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