Journal:
:anesthesiology and pain medicine
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sussan soltani mohammadi department of anesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine, tehran university of medical sciences, dr shariati hospital, tehran, iran; department of anesthesiology, dr shariati hospital, tehran, iran. fax: +98-2188633039
alireza saliminia department of anesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine, tehran university of medical sciences, dr shariati hospital, tehran, iran
nasim nejatifard department of anesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine, tehran university of medical sciences, dr shariati hospital, tehran, iran
roxana azma department of pediatric radiology, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, mofid children’s hospital, tehran, iran
conclusions our study revealed weak correlation between pe/e-vc and cormack-lehane grade, with 87% sensitivity and 30% specificity. therefore, we concluded that sonographic measurement criteria are not accurate in airway evaluations before anesthesia. results it was observed that correlations between the pre-epiglottic space (pe) and cormack-lehane grades i, ii, and iii were weak. correlations ...