OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association between emergency tracheal intubation difficulty
and the occurrence of immediate complications and mortality, when standardised airway …

Background: General anesthesia is not without morbidity. One of the well-known life-
threatening events associated with general anesthesia is difficult airway which can happen …

Methods: During the study, 627 patients (329 cardiac and 298 non-cardiac surgical) were
enrolled. Pre-operative demographic and other variables associated with DI were assessed …

Background Airway management may be a considerable challenge for anesthesiologists.
Currently used preoperative screening tests are known to lack sufficient specificity and …

Introduction. The significance of difficult or failed tracheal intubation following induction is a
well‐recognized cause of morbidity and mortality in anesthetic practice. Nevertheless, the …

Context: Unanticipated difficult laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation always remain a
primary concern for an anaesthesiologist as the failure to maintain a patent airway during …

Objective Difficult laryngoscopy is associated with difficult intubation, an increasing number
of endotracheal intubation attempts, and adverse events. Clinical prediction of difficult …

Background. The incidence of a difficult laryngoscopy/intubation, which could lead to failed
intubation is in the range of 1.5%-13%. Failed intubation may lead to hypoxia, brain damage …

IMPLICATIONS: Our survey showed that cricothyroidotomy by IV catheter and percutaneous
cricothyroidotomy were the preferred infraglottic airways in a cannot-intubate-cannot …

BACKGROUND: Using the intubation difficulty scale (IDS), we sought to confirm that obese
patients are more difficult to intubate than lean patients. We assessed classical bedside tests …