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Clinical versus Ultrasound Measurements of Hyomental Distance Ratio for the Prediction of Difficult Airway in Patients with and without Morbid Obesity

Cristina Petrișor, Sebastian Trancă, Róbert Szabó, Róbert Šimon, Adrian Prie, Constantin Bodolea

Diagnostics · 2020 · 24 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

The association between HMDR<sub>clin</sub> and HDMR<sub>echo</sub> is moderate in patients without morbid obesity, but negligible in morbidly obese patients. These might be explained by difficulties in palpating anatomical structures of the airway.

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