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

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 …

Importance Recognizing patients in whom endotracheal intubation is likely to be difficult can
help alert physicians to the need for assistance from a clinician with airway training and …

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 …

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 …

Elucidating the contemporary rate of difficult or failed intubation in women undergoing
general anesthesia for cesarean delivery is confounded in the literature by small sample …

Method: We searched the databases of PubMed, Scopus, and Google scholar for
prospective studies published up until October 2016 assessing the accuracy of ULBT in …

Résumé Objectif Fournir un aperçu fonde sur des donnees probantes et une mise ajour sur
l'utilisation du masque larynge FastrachTM Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway®(FT-LMA) tel …

Background Identifying a potentially difficult airway is crucial both in anaesthesia in the
operating room (OR) and non-operation room sites. There are no guidelines or expert …

Background This systematic review aims to assist clinical decision-making in selecting
appropriate preoperative prediction methods for difficult tracheal intubation by identifying …