Correlation between preoperative ultrasonographic airway assessment and laryngoscopic view in adult patients: A prospective study
Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology Sep 15, 2017
Parameswari A, et al. - This study intended to find some correlation between preoperative sonographic airway assessment parameters and the CormackÂLehane (CL) grade at laryngoscopic view in adult patients. The skin to epiglottis distance, as measured at the level of the thyrohyoid membrane, was identified as a good predictor of difficult laryngoscopy. In combination with the modified Mallampati classification, the combined parameter versus any single parameter alone had greater sensitivity.
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