Polyhronis Ieropoulos, Vassilios Tassoudis, Nick Ntafoulis, Ioanna Mimitou, George Vretzakis, George Tzovaras, Dimitrios Zacharoulis, Menelaos Karanikolas
Objective: The existing evidence separately correlates morbid obesity with difficult intubation and bronchospasm. However, there is a lack of data on whether anaesthesia provider manipulations during difficult intubation contribute to an increased ratio of bronchospasm in these patients. Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of data prospectively taken from 50 morbidly obese patients involved in a previously published study. A possible difficult intubation was preoperatively investigated by recording the following specific physical examination indices: Mallampati and Cormack-Lehane (CL) classifications, cervical spine mobility (CSM), thyromental distance (Td) and patients' ability to open their mouth (mouth opening)...
August 2018: Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation