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CONTEXT:Unexpected difficulty in tracheal intubation is an intermittent and often terrifying problem for all practising anaesthetists. There are many preoperative assessment tests to predict a difficult laryngeal view or a difficult intubation, but we found no published evidence of how frequently these predictive tests are used or how useful they are perceived to be by anaesthetists. OBJECTIVE:We decided to ask UK and non-UK anaesthetists attending the Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology about their practice in predicting difficult intubation. DESIGN:The study was conceived as a survey. SETTING:The airway tests were compiled into a questionnaire, hand distributed among anaesthetists at Euroanaesthesia - the European group (after excluding UK attendees) - and posted to randomly selected anaesthetists in the UK - the UK group. PARTICIPANTS:Overall, 888 of 1230 (72%) questionnaires were completed. The response rate from the UK group of anaesthetists was 69% (481 of 700) and from the European group was 77% (407 of 530). RESULTS:On a scale 1 (never) to 5 (always), the mean score for frequency of use was similar for both groups of anaesthetists and ranged from about 4 for mouth opening to about 1 for Nodding Donkey. The mean score for usefulness (1 = useless, 5 = extremely useful) ranged from about 3.7 to 2 for the same two tests. The UK group found most tests slightly less useful than did the European group. With regard to the frequency of assessing the airway, 9% of the European group, but 16% of the UK group, failed always (score 5) or regularly (score 4) to assess the airway before general anaesthesia. Furthermore, 21 and 36% of the UK and European groups, respectively, failed to do so before regional anaesthesia. CONCLUSION:These results are a cause for concern with regard to both airway management training and patient safety.
journal_name
Eur J Anaesthesioljournal_title
European journal of anaesthesiologyauthors
McPherson D,Vaughan RS,Wilkes AR,Mapleson WW,Hodzovic Idoi
10.1097/EJA.0b013e32835103e6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-05-01 00:00:00pages
218-22issue
5eissn
0265-0215issn
1365-2346journal_volume
29pub_type
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