Mallampati class, obesity, and a novel airway trajectory measurement to predict difficult laryngoscopy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 161-166

  Lee, Scott L ^a   Hosford, Clint ^b   Lee, Quyen T ^a   Parnes, Steve M ^c   Shapshay, Stanley M ^c  

^a Valley Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway trajectory measurement; Cormack Lehane; Difficult laryngoscopy; Mallampati; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY TRAJECTORY MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORMACK LEHANE GRADE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALLAMPATI CLASSIFICATION; OBESITY; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SNIFFING; COMPLICATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIGLOTTIS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLOTTIS; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; OBESITY; PILOT PROJECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84919820083     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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