Comparison of the Mallampati Classification in Sitting and Supine Position to Predict Difficult Tracheal Intubation: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 161-169

  Hanouz, Jean Luc ^a,b   Bonnet, Vincent ^a   Buléon, Clément ^a   Simonet, Thérèse ^a   Radenac, Dorothée ^a   Zamparini, Guillaume ^a   Fischer, Marc Olivier ^a   Gérard, Jean Louis ^c  

^a CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFICULT MASK VENTILATION; DIFFICULT TRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MACROGLOSSIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALLAMPATI CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; NAGUIB SCORE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SITTING; SNORING; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL PATIENT; AGED; LARYNGOSCOPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 85019543192     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002108     Document Type: Article

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