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Vertically unstable fractured mandibular segment with attached genial tubercles as a parameter for difficulty during
Darpan Bhargava1, Rajkumar Ahirwal2, Nupur Chakravorty3
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Peoples College of Dental Sciences and Research Center, Peoples University, Bhopal, MP India ; H-3/2 BDA Colony, Lalghati, Airport Road, Bhopal, 462031 MP India.
Purpose:
It remains vital for the trauma management team including the anaesthetist and the operating surgeon to assess and evaluate the anticipated difficulty in intubation to secure airway and for administration of anaesthesia. This study assesses the difficulty in intubating patients with vertically unstable mandibular parasymphysis fracture with attached genial tubercles and associated musculature to the fractured segment.
Methods:
Randomized sampling was done from the cases with maxillofacial trauma planned for a surgical procedure under general anaesthesia. The inclusion criteria was to prospectively identify ten patients each of unilateral unfavourable mandibular parasymphysis fracture with genial tubercle attached to the displaced segment, with bilateral unfavourable mandibular parasymphysis fracture with genial tubercle attached to the displaced segment and with unilateral favourable mandibular parasymphysis fracture with genial tubercle attached to the un-displaced segment. All the patients were intubated by a single anaesthetist, who documented the difficulty in nasoendotracheal intubation using Intubation Difficulty Scale.
Results:
Nasoendotracheal intubation was found relatively easy in the study group with unilateral favourable mandibular parasymphysis fracture with genial tubercle attached to the un-displaced segment. Clinical difficulty in intubating the patients was maximum in the study group with bilateral unfavourable mandibular parasymphysis fracture with genial tubercle attached to the displaced segment.
Conclusion:
Displacement of fractured mandible and resultant displacement of the genial musculature should be considered as a vital parameter for assessing difficulty during intubation.
