Thyromental height test for prediction of difficult laryngoscopy in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgical procedure

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 207-211

  Jain, Nilesh ^a   Das, Sucharita ^a   Kanchi, Muralidhar ^a  

^a Multispecialty Hospital Shaw Mazumdar Medical Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Airway; Cormack Lehane; laryngoscopy; thyromental height

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIOLOGIST; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HEIGHT; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHIN; FEMALE; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STERNUM; THYROID GLAND; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHIN; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STERNUM; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 85018767107     PISSN: 09719784     EISSN: 09745181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/aca.ACA_229_16     Document Type: Article

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