ISSN: 2155-6148
Dr, Department of Anesthesia/ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Dr. Ahmed MR Taha is a professor in the Department of Anesthesia/ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. His study interests major on anesthesia, Pain Management, Health analysis. In recent years, he has studied several studies including Advances in Anesthesia, epidemiology, and aesthetic Technology. Currently, Dr. Ahmed MR Taha is the author/editor/reviewer in several international journals. He published 15 articles in many journals and the articles are informative and got good citations.
Research Article
Short Neck, a New Criterion for Airway Assessment: A Pilot, Cross Sectional Single Blind Study
Author(s): Jafar H Faraj*, Yasir E Ahmed, Chetankumar B Raval, Taisir M Yousif, Neeraj Kumar, Sandesh Kamat, Saba K Mahdi, Ahamed L Aliyar and Ahmed MR Taha
Background: “Short Neck” is a term used by anesthesiologists and emergency physicians to describe one of the risk
factors of difficult airway management; but there is no consensus on what length constitutes short neck.
Study objective: To measure neck length and associate it with intubation difficulty in obese patients, the secondary
objective to find any relationship between short neck, difficult intubation and increasing body mass index.
Design: A pilot, cross sectional prospective single blinded study.
Sample: 97 adult patients scheduled for elective surgery, in Hamad General Hospital between March 2018 and
October 2018, under general anesthesia, was recruited for the study.
Results: Airway assessment using anthropometric measurements, including neck length, were.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-6148.20.11.954