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Dr, Department of Anesthesia/ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Biography

Dr. Sandesh Kamat  is an Associate professor in the   Department of Anesthesia/ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. Dr.  Sandesh Kamat is the author/editors/reviewer in several international journals. He published 14articles in many journals and the articles are informative and got good citations.

Publications

• 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

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