Open AccessCorrelation between preoperative ultrasonographic airway assessment and laryngoscopic view in adult patients: A prospective study
Author(s) -
Aruna Parameswari,
Mithila Govind,
Mahesh Vakamudi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/joacp.joacp_166_17
Subject(s) - medicine , laryngoscopy , epiglottis , intubation , airway , prospective cohort study , anesthesia , elective surgery , tracheal intubation , predictive value of tests , predictive value , radiology , surgery , larynx
Difficult tracheal intubation is associated with serious morbidity and mortality and cannot be always predicted based on preoperative airway assessment using conventional clinical predictors. Ultrasonographic airway assessment could be a useful adjunct, but at present, there are no well-defined sonographic criteria that can predict the possibility of encountering a difficult airway. The present study was conducted with the aim of finding some correlation between preoperative sonographic airway assessment parameters and the Cormack-Lehane (CL) grade at laryngoscopic view in adult patients.