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Evaluation of Mandibular Mental Angle and Mandibular Profile Angle

NCT05130645 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2021-12-09

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Summary

Airway management is extremely important for providing safe anesthesia. Endotracheal intubation, on the other hand, is the most important step in airway management, especially since it requires rapid and successful execution. Inadequate airway management; is associated with complications that require high-level care and cost, such as death, brain damage, increased need for intensive care, prolonged recovery period, and emergency tracheostomy. 15-25% of anesthesia-related deaths are associated with airway management. 17% of settled cases against anesthesiologists are composed of airway-related events (often difficult intubation, inadequate oxygenation/ventilation, and pulmonary aspiration).

An important point in ensuring airway patency is preoperative evaluation. Difficulties arising from anatomical features can be revealed by careful evaluation of mouth opening, the structure of tongue and palate, thyromental distance (TMM), sternomental distance (SMM), mobility of cervical vertebrae, jaw occlusion, and necessary precautions can be taken.

The most commonly used tests to determine the degree of difficulty of intubation are the modified Mallampati test, the thyromental distance, the upper lip bite test, the inter incisor space, and the sternomental distance. Recent studies are trying to confirm the sensitivity and specificity of existing tests. However, there is no test with 100% specificity and sensitivity in predicting difficult laryngoscopy and intubation.

Conditions

  • Intubation; Difficult or Failed

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Mental Angle

In order to standardize and measure the mental angle, the projection of the mental will be accepted as the midline, the jaw structure will be transferred to the paper using the profile contour meter, and the angle between the angulus mandible and the mental will be measured and recorded with a digital protractor.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Elif Şule Özdemir · Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit ERH

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-11-28
Primary Completion
2022-03-20
Completion
2022-04-20

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