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Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Review of Ultrasound Parameters for Predicting Difficult Airways
Published on: April 7, 2023
A New Old Way to Look at Airway Assessment
1is a staff CRNA for Quincy Medical Group in Quincy, Illinois. He is also a dental anesthesia educator for Sedation Consult, LLC, in Columbia, Missouri, and an associate professor at the Center for Advanced Dental Education at St Louis University in St Louis, Missouri.
Abstract:
Imagine performing an oral endotracheal intubation with the tongue totally absent from your line of sight of the laryngeal anatomy, including the glottis. The addition of the Angle's Classification of Malocclusion, a tool some may call archaic, should be added alongside airway assessment tools that dental surgeons and nurse anesthesiologists commonly use, such as the Mallampati Classification (or Mallampati Score), Thyromental Distance (TMD), Neck Range of Motion, Size of the Tongue, and Interincisor Distance, also called Intermaxillary Distance.
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