The American Society of Anesthesiologists; All India Difficult Airway Association; European
Airway Management Society; European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care; …

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

BACKGROUND: Despite several clinical index tests that are currently applied for airway
assessment, unpredicted difficult laryngoscopy may still represent a serious problem in …

Background Previously active in the mid-1990s, the Canadian Airway Focus Group (CAFG)
studied the unanticipated difficult airway and made recommendations on management in a …

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 …

IMPLICATIONS: The accuracy of the original and modified versions of the Mallampati test
ranges from poor to good for predicting difficult laryngoscopy and difficult intubation. The …

The modified Mallampati score is used to predict difficult tracheal intubation. We have
conducted a meta-analysis of published studies to evaluate the Mallampati score as a …

Background The purpose of our study was to organize the literature regarding the efficacy of
modern videolaryngoscopes in oral endotracheal intubation, then perform a quality …

Current methods to assess the airway before tracheal intubation are variable in their ability
to predict a difficult airway accurately. We hypothesised that sublingual ultrasound could …

IMPLICATIONS: This study is the first to provide an evidence-based foundation for selection
of the most sensitive model for prediction of unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation …