The extended mallampati score and a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus are predictors of difficult laryngoscopy in the morbidly obese

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1919-1923

  Mashour, George A ^a,c   Kheterpal, Sachin ^a   Vanaharam, Vishnu ^b   Shanks, Amy ^a   Wang, Luke Y J ^a   Sandberg, Warren S ^b   Tremper, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c 1500 East Medical Center Dr ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT MOBILITY; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AGED; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 58149293354     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818a9946     Document Type: Article

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