Background: The upper airway is an extraordinarily complex anatomical region. Anticipating and preparing for difficulty in airway management is crucial to avoid airway catastrophes. Objective: Aim of our study was to evaluate the combination of El-Ganzouri airway risk index (EGRI) with the ultrasound of the airway (measuring the hyomental distance and distance from epiglottis to midpoint between the two vocal cords) as a fast, easy and noninvasive method in the examination of the airway and prediction of difficult airway. Patients and methods: Preoperative airway assessment will be carried out for 60 adult patients randomly allocated in Al-Azhar University Hospitals. Results: The hyomental distance at cutoff point of 5.6 cm, (below which the intubation difficulty is high), sensitivity and specificity of Cormack-Lehane grade with hyomental distance in study group was75.0% and 94.4% respectively with accuracy of 85%. For the epiglottis to vocal cord distance the cut off value of ≤ 1.2 (below which the intubation difficulty is high) the sensitivity of epiglottis to vocal cord distance was 75.0% and the specificity was 100% with accuracy of 92%. Conclusion: We concluded that combination of EGRI with epiglottis to vocal cord distance and hyomental distance is a very sensitive and specific tool for prediction of difficult airway and may be superior to standard methods of assessment.
Abo Sabaa, M. A., Amer, G. F., Saleh, A. E. A. A., & Elbakery, M. A. E. E. (2019). Comparative study between El-Ganzouri airway risk index alone and in combination with upper airway ultrasound in preoperative airway assessment. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 77(5), 5621-5632. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.62144
MLA
Mohamed Amr Abo Sabaa; Gamal Farouk Amer; Abd Elwehab Abd Alsatar Saleh; Mohamed Abd ElrahmanAbd Elkader Elbakery. "Comparative study between El-Ganzouri airway risk index alone and in combination with upper airway ultrasound in preoperative airway assessment", The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 77, 5, 2019, 5621-5632. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.62144
HARVARD
Abo Sabaa, M. A., Amer, G. F., Saleh, A. E. A. A., Elbakery, M. A. E. E. (2019). 'Comparative study between El-Ganzouri airway risk index alone and in combination with upper airway ultrasound in preoperative airway assessment', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 77(5), pp. 5621-5632. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.62144
VANCOUVER
Abo Sabaa, M. A., Amer, G. F., Saleh, A. E. A. A., Elbakery, M. A. E. E. Comparative study between El-Ganzouri airway risk index alone and in combination with upper airway ultrasound in preoperative airway assessment. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2019; 77(5): 5621-5632. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.62144
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