Submandible angle in nonobese patients with difficult tracheal intubation

Anesthesiology

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 916-923

  Suzuki, Noriko ^a   Isono, Shiroh ^a   Ishikawa, Teruhiko ^a   Kitamura, Yuji ^a   Takai, Yujiro ^b   Nishino, Takashi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE; OBESITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34247556504     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.anes.0000265150.71319.91     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Crosby ET, Cooper RM, Douglas MJ, Doyle DJ, Hung OR, Labrecque P, Muir H, Murphy MF, Preston RP, Rose DK, Roy L: The unanticipated difficult airway with recommendations for management. Can J Anaesth 1998; 45:757-76
2. Caplan RA, Posner KL, Ward RJ, Cheney FW: Adverse respiratory events in anesthesia: A closed claims analysis. ANESTHESIOLOGY 1990; 72:828-33
3. Perrett DI, May KA, Yoshikawa S: Facial shape and judgements of female attractiveness. Nature 1994; 368:239-42
4. Hasel LE, Wells GL: Catching the bad guy: Morphing composite faces helps. Law Hum Behav 2006; (Epub ahead of print)
5. Cormack RS, Lehane J: Difficult tracheal intubation in obstetrics. Anaesthesia 1984; 39:1105-11
6. Samsoon GLT, Young JRB: Difficult tracheal intubation: A retrospective study. Anaesthesia 1987; 42:487-90
7. Adnet F, Borron SW, Racine SX, Clemessy JL, Fournier JL, Plaisance P: Lapandry: The intubation difficulty scale (IDS): Proposal and evaluation of a new score characterizing the complexity of endotracheal intubation. ANESTHESIOLOGY 1997; 87:1290-7
8. Liu Y, Lowe AA, Zeng X, Fu M, Fleetham JA: Cephalometric comparisons between Chinese and Caucasian patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 2000; 117:479-85
9. Juvin P, Lavaut E, Dupont H, Lefevre P, Demetriou M, Dumoulin JL, Desmonts JM: Difficult tracheal intubation is more common in obese than in lean patients. Anesth Analg 2003; 97:595-600
10. Brodsky JB, Lemmens HJ, Brock-Utne JG, Vierra M, Saidman LJ: Morbid obesity and tracheal intubation. Anesth Analg 2002; 94:732-6
11. Ezri T, Medalion B, Weisenberg M, Szmuk P, Warters RD, Charuzi I: Increased body mass index per se is not a predictor of difficult laryngoscopy. Can J Anaesth 2003; 50:179-83
12. Shiga T, Wajima Z, Inoue T, Sakamoto A: Predicting difficult intubation in apparently normal patients: A meta-analysis of bedside screening test performance. ANESTHESIOLOGY 2005; 103:429-37
13. Wilson ME, Spiegelhalter D, Robertson JA, Lesser P: Predicting difficult intubation. Br J Anaesth 1988; 61:211-6
14. Isono S: Contribution of obesity and craniofacial abnormalities to pharyngeal collapsibility in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep Biol Rhythms 2004; 2:17-21
15. Watanabe T, Isono S, Tanaka A, Tanzawa H, Nishino T: Contribution of body habitus and craniofacial characteristics to segmental closing pressures of the passive pharynx in patients with sleep disordered breathing. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:260-5
16. Ferguson KA, Ono T, Lowe AA, Ryan CF, Fleetham JA: The relationship between obesity and craniofacial structure in obstructive sleep apnea. Chest 1995; 108:375-81
17. Tsai WH, Remmers JE, Brant R, Flemons WW, Davies J, Macarthur C: A decision rule for diagnostic testing in obstructive sleep apnea. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003; 167:1427-32
18. Isono S, Tanaka A, Ishikawa T, Tagaito Y, Nishino T: Sniffing position improves pharyngeal airway patency in anesthetized patients with obstructive sleep apnea. ANESTHESIOLOGY 2005; 103:489-94
19. Siyam MA, Benhamou D: Difficult endotracheal intubation in patients with sleep apnea syndrome. Anesth Analg 2002; 95:1098-102
20. Langeron O, Masso E, Huraux C, Guggiari M, Bianchi A, Coriat P, Riou B: Prediction of difficult mask ventilation. ANESTHESIOLOGY 2000; 92:1229-36