Usefulness and diagnostic value of the NEMA parameter combined with other selected bedside tests for prediction of difficult intubation

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 37, Issue , 2017, Pages 132-135

  Torres, Kamil ^a   Błoński, Marcin ^b   Lukasz S ^a   Piasecka Twaróg, Małgorzata ^b   Maciejewski, Ryszard ^a   Torres, Anna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b District Specialist Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

Airway management; Laryngoscopy; Risk assessment; Tracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

ACROMION; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NECK CIRCUMFERENCE; NECK CIRCUMFERENCE MINUS ACROMION ACROMION DISTANCE; POLAND; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPLICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRY; NECK; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACROMION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SNORING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85008953522     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: 18734529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2016.11.009     Document Type: Article

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