Difficult Airway Lab Report

There is no standard definition for the difficult airway but it is accepted to define it as the clinical situation where a well-trained anesthesiologist find difficulty with face mask ventilation, difficulty with tracheal intubation, or both.1 In order to identify patients who are expected to have difficult intubation, anesthesiologists use several methods before the initiation of anesthesia.2, 3 There are several complications associated with the difficult airway such as trauma to the face, teeth, or airway, unnecessary tracheostomy, cardiopulmonary arrest, brain injury, or death.1,4
The gold standard for the management of difficult intubation is fiberoptic intubation using fiberoptic bronchoscope.5
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