Airway assessment based on a three column model of direct laryngoscopy

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-19

  Greenland, K B ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Airway assessment; Anaesthesia; Difficult airway; Laryngoscopy; Prediction

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCISOR; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG COMPLIANCE; NASOPHARYNX; NECK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TONGUE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; X RAY;

EID: 75749156955     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1003800104     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Yentis SM. Predicting difficult intubation - worthwhile exercise or pointless ritual? Anaesthesia 2002; 57:105-109.
2. Wilson ME, Spiegelhalter D, Robertson JA, Lesser P. Predicting difficult intubation. Br J Anaesth 1988; 61:211-216.
3. Bellhouse CP, Dore C. Criteria for estimating likelihood of difficulty of endotracheal intubation with the Macintosh laryngoscope. Anaesth Intensive Care 1988; 16:329-337.
4. Bellhouse CP, Dore C. Predicting difficult intubation. Br J Anaesth 1989; 62:469.
5. Bellhouse CP. Predicting difficult intubation. Anaesthesia 1992; 47:440-441.
6. Rocke DA, Murray WB, Rout CC, Gouws E. Relative risk analysis of factors associated with difficult intubation in obstetric anesthesia. Anesthesiology 1992; 77:67-73.
7. Savva D. Sternomental distance - a useful predictor of difficult intubation in patients with cervical spine disease? Anaesthesia 1996; 51:284-285.
8. Tse JC, Rimm EB, Hussain A. Predicting difficult endotracheal intubation in surgical patients scheduled for general anesthesia: a prospective blind study. Anesth Analg 1995; 81:254-258.
9. El-Ganzouri A, McCarthy R, Tuman K, Tanck E, Ivankovich A. Preoperative airway assessment: predictive value of a multivariate risk index. Anesth Analg 1996; 82:1197-1204.
10. Karkouti K, Rose DK, Wigglesworth D, Cohen MM. Predicting difficult intubation: a multivariable analysis. Can J Anaesth 2000; 47:730-739.
11. Karkouti K, Rose DK, Ferris LE, Wigglesworth DF, Meisami-Fard T. Inter-observer reliability of ten tests used for predicting difficult tracheal intubation. Can J Anaesth 1996; 43:554-559.
12. Greenland K. A proposed model of direct laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation. Anaesthesia 2008; 63:156-161.
13. Practice guidelines for management of the difficult airway: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway. Anesthesiology 2003; 98:1269-1277.
14. Cheek TG, Gutsche BB. Maternal physiological alterations during pregnancy. Baltimore, Williams & Williams, 1993.
15. Arokoski JPA, Surakka J, Ojala T, Kolari P, Jurvelin JS. Feasibility of the use of a novel soft tissue stiffness meter. Physiol Meas 2005; 26:215-228.
16. Aiello G, Metcalf I. Anaesthetic implications of temporomandibular joint disease. Can J Anaesth 1992; 39:610-616.
17. Sharwood-Smith GH. Difficulty in intubation. Calcified stylohyoid ligament. Anaesthesia 1976; 31:508-510.
18. Walls RD, Timmis DP, Finucane BT. Difficult intubation associated with calcified stylohyoid ligament. Anaesth Intensive Care 1990; 18:110-112.
19. Aris AM, Elegbe EO, Krishna R. Difficult intubation stylohyoid ligament calcification. Singapore Med J 1992; 33:204-205.
20. Ames WA, McNiellis N. Stylohyoid ligament calcification as a cause of difficult intubation? Anaesthesia 1998; 53:415-416.
21. Greenland KB, Cumpston PHV, Huang J. Magnetic resonance scanning of the upper airway following difficult intubation reveals an unexpected lingual tonsil. Anaesth Intensive Care 2009; 37:301-304.
22. Bannister F, Macbeth R. Direct laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation. Lancet 1944; Nov:651-654.
23. Horton WA, Fahy L, Charters P. Defining a standard intubating position using "angle finder". Br J Anaesth 1989; 62:6-12.
24. Benumof JL. Comparison of intubating positions: the end point for position should be measured. Anesthesiology 2002; 97:750.
25. Collins J, Lemmens H, Brodsky J, Brock-Utne J, Levitan R. Laryngoscopy and morbid obesity: a comparison of the "sniff"and "ramped" positions. Obes Surg 2004; 14:1171-1175.
26. Ogunnaike BO, Jones SB, Jones DB, Provost D, Whitten CW. Anesthetic considerations for bariatric surgery. Anesth Analg 2002; 95:1793-1805.
27. Brodsky JB, Lemmens HJ, Brock-Utne JG, Saidman LJ, Levitan R. Anesthetic considerations for bariatric surgery: proper positioning is important for laryngoscopy. Anesth Analg 2003; 96:1841-1842.
28. Randell T. Prediction of difficult intubation. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 1996; 40:1016-1023.