EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREOPERATIVE ULTRASONOGRAPHIC AIRWAY ASSESMENT AND CORMACK LEHANE GRADING IN DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPIC VIEW FOR PREDICTING DIFFICULT AIRWAY IN ADULT PATIENTS

Abstract

Background: Difficult tracheal intubation is associated with serious morbidity and mortality and cannot be always predicted based on Preoperative airway assessment using conventional clinical predictors. Ultrasonographic airway assessment could be useful adjunct, so the present study was conducted to find the correlation between Preoperative ultrasonographic airway assessment using a parameter - Measuring the distance from skin to epiglottis for prediction of difficult direct laryngoscopy and the Cormack-Lehane grade at laryngoscopic view in adult patients