Airway physical examination tests for detection of difficult airway management in apparently normal adult patients

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2018, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Roth, Dominik ^a   Pace, Nathan L ^b   Lee, Anna ^c,d   Hovhannisyan, Karen ^e   Warenits, Alexandra Maria ^a   Arrich, Jasmin ^a   Herkner, Harald ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d Prince of Wales Hospital   (Hong Kong)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; META ANALYSIS; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 85047073240     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008874.pub2     Document Type: Review

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