Abstract

MIRABAL RODRIGUEZ, Cristina; GONZALEZ SANCHEZ, Edelmira  and  ARAGON PALMERO, Felipe J. Discriminación diagnóstica de las pruebas de predicción de la vía aérea difícil. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2003, vol.42, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

In order to determine the prognostic value of the difficult airways predictive tests, an observational and descriptive study of all patients over 15 operated on with general orotracheal anesthesia under elective conditions at "Antonio L. Luaces Iraola" Provincial General Teaching Hospital, in Ciego de Avila, in a one-year term, was conducted. 3 predictive tests of the difficult airways were preoperatively applied to each patient: Mallampati's test, atlanto-occipital extension and mentothyroid distance., The last of these tests, which is that of direct vision (Cormack and Lehane) was used after the anesthesia induction. The discriminatory diagnositc capacity of each of these tests was evaluated. Among the studied tests, the direct vision test proved to be the best predictor of difficult entubation. The diagnostic tests of Mallampati, atlantoocipital extension and mentothyroid distance have low density and specificity and little predicitive value

Keywords : INTUBACION INTRATRAQUEAL [métodos]; ANESTESIA GENERAL; TECNICAS Y PROCEDIMIENTOS DIAGNOSTICOS.