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Ultrasonography Versus Conventional Methods for Prediction of Difficult Airway in Adult Patients
• 2020
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B. S. Abdelhady , M. A. Elrabiey , A. H. Abd Elrahman & E. E. Mohamed
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Abstract
Background
The poor reliability of traditional screening tools to identify a potentially difficult airway makes the difficult laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation rate remains at 1.5–13%.The hypothesis is that fat pads affect the view during direct laryngoscopy so the increasing thickness of pretracheal soft tissue or pre-epiglottic space could be strong predictors of difficult laryngoscopy as the mobility of the pharyngeal structures is impaired. Upon that, we aimed to evaluate ultrasound-measured distance from skin to epiglottis for prediction of difficult laryngoscopy in Egyptian population.
The poor reliability of traditional screening tools to identify a potentially difficult airway makes the difficult laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation rate remains at 1.5–13%.The hypothesis is that fat pads affect the view during direct laryngoscopy so the increasing thickness of pretracheal soft tissue or pre-epiglottic space could be strong predictors of difficult laryngoscopy as the mobility of the pharyngeal structures is impaired. Upon that, we aimed to evaluate ultrasound-measured distance from skin to epiglottis for prediction of difficult laryngoscopy in Egyptian population.