A comparison of preoperative airway assessment techniques: The modified Mallampati and the upper lip bite test

AANA Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-182

  Hester, Christopher Evan ^a   Dietrich, Shelli Ann ^b   White, Samuel Wayne ^c,d   Secrest, Janet A ^e   Lindgren, Kay Russell ^e   Smith, Timothy ^a  

^a Redmond Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^b Anesthesiology Consultants Exchange   (United States)

^c South Central Regional Medical Center ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^e UNION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway assessment; Modified Mallampati test; Upper lip bite test

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CORMACK AND LEHANE SCALE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LARYNGOSCOPY; MODIFED MALLAMPATI TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE; UPPER LIP BITE TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; JAW RELATION RECORD; LARYNGOSCOPY; LIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ANESTHETISTS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSERVER VARIATION; OROPHARYNX; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TONGUE;

EID: 34250163232     PISSN: 00946354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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