Prediction of difficult airway among patients requiring endotracheal intubation in a tertiary care hospital in Eastern Nepal

Journal of the Nepal Medical Association

Volumn 56, Issue 207, 2017, Pages 314-318

  Khatiwada, Sindhu ^a   Bhattarai, Balkrishna ^a   Pokharel, Krishna ^a   Acharya, Roshan ^b  

^a B P KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Nepal)

^b Nobel Medical College   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Airway evaluation; Difficult intubation; Difficult laryngoscopy; Modified Mallampati test; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTER INCISOR DISTANCE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBULAR PROTRUSION GRADING; MODIFIED MALLAMPATTI TEST; NEPAL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROGNATHIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STERNOMENTAL DISTANCE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THYROMENTAL DISTANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHIN; INCISOR; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; STERNUM; THYROID CARTILAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CHIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCISOR; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; THYROID CARTILAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85033697375     PISSN: 00282715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31729/jnma.2918     Document Type: Article

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