Thyromental height: A new clinical test for prediction of difficult laryngoscopy

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1347-1351

  Etezadi, Farhad ^a   Ahangari, Aylar ^a   Shokri, Hajar ^a   Najafi, Atabak ^a   Khajavi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Daghigh, Mahtab ^a   Moharari, Reza Shariat ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROMENTAL HEIGHT TEST;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THYROID CARTILAGE;

EID: 84889012043     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182a8c734     Document Type: Article

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