Background The unanticipated difficult airway is a potentially life‐threatening event during
anaesthesia or acute conditions. An unsuccessfully managed upper airway is associated …

Although bedside screening tests are routinely used to identify people at high risk of having
a difficult airway, their clinical utility is unclear. We estimated the diagnostic accuracy of …

Importance Recognizing patients in whom endotracheal intubation is likely to be difficult can
help alert physicians to the need for assistance from a clinician with airway training and …

More than two failed intubation attempts and failed endotracheal intubations (ETIs) are
associated with severe complications and death. The aim of this review was to determine the …

Background. Increased tongue thickness is likely to be associated with difficult airways.
However, no methods to evaluate tongue thickness were available. Currently, tongue …

BACKGROUND: The incidence of difficult laryngoscopy is reported in the range of 1.5% to
20%. We hypothesized that there is a close association between the occurrence of difficult …

Method: We searched the databases of PubMed, Scopus, and Google scholar for
prospective studies published up until October 2016 assessing the accuracy of ULBT in …

Introducción: La intubación difícil se define como la necesidad de tres o más intentos para la
intubación de la tráquea o más de 10 minutos para realizarla, situación que ocurre en 1.5 a …

Materials and methods After obtaining written informed consent, this prospective
comparative observational study was conducted on 225 patients scheduled for elective …

Background Airway protection during anesthesia is often the primary concern of anesthetists
when working with obese patients and always is a difficult task due to increased exposure to …