Finding out difficult airway
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: J958- Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of respiratory system, not elsewhere classified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/02/062357
- Lead Sponsor
- Sree Gokulam Medical College and Research Foundation Thiruvananthapuram Kerala India
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
American Society of Anesthesiologists grade I /II
Patients undergoing elective surgeries requiring endotracheal intubation
Exclusion Criteria
Anatomical abnormality of head, neck and thorax
°Use of cervical collar or having cervical spine abnormality
°History of head and neck surgery
°Any Previous H/o difficult airway
°Obese patients (BMI >30kg/m2)
°Obstetric patients
° Patients with inability to open mouth
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method AASI may be used as a new bedside test for assessment of difficult intubation in <br/ ><br>combination with the other conventional bedside tests for difficult airway prediction.Timepoint: Baseline- AASI measured in pre-operative room <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Cormack Lehane gradingTimepoint: Cormack Lehane grading done at the time of laryngoscopy