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Adnet et al [4] proposed an intubation difficulty scale that included laryngoscopy view with Comarck-Lehane grade. Because difficult intubation depends on the operator expertise, knowledge, and assessment to airway devices and different airway techniques, in our opinion, difficult intubation is a le...

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Published inJournal of critical care Vol. 34; pp. 133 - 134
Main Authors Joana, Pinto, MD, Cordeiro, Lúcia, MD, Pereira, Cláudia, MD, Gama, Ricardo, PhD, Fernandes, Hugo, PhD, Assunção, José, MD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Limited 01.08.2016
Subjects
Airway management
Confidence intervals
Critical Care
Editors
Intubation
Management decisions
Ultrasonic imaging
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Summary:Adnet et al [4] proposed an intubation difficulty scale that included laryngoscopy view with Comarck-Lehane grade. Because difficult intubation depends on the operator expertise, knowledge, and assessment to airway devices and different airway techniques, in our opinion, difficult intubation is a less objective end point in clinical investigation. [...]as stated in our manuscript, we would like to point out that one caveat of our study is that all the data were collected in the same hospital. [...]we agree with Xue et al that future research should aim at validating these results and quantifying how reproducible they are using data collected by different practitioners across different populations of patients.
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ISSN:0883-9441
1557-8615
DOI:10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.03.014