Anesthesia & Clinical Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-6148
ISSN: 2155-6148
Dr, Department of Anesthesia/ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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