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See Latest ArticlesPredicting difficult airways using the intubation difficulty scale: a study comparing obese and non-obese patients
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 06/25/09
Lavi R et al. - Difficult intubation was more prevalent among obese than non-obese patients, but intubation duration and lowest SaO2 levels during intubation were not. Moreover, the modified Mallampati test was found to be a moderately good (60%) predictor of difficult intubation among obese patients.
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