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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1726-6718</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Cubana de Anestesiología y Reanimación]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev cuba anestesiol reanim]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1726-6718</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Editorial Ciencias Médicas]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1726-67182019000200005</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Capacidad del índice de El-Ganzouri para predecir el grado de dificultad en la intubación traqueal]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[El-Ganzouri index effectiveness for predicting the degree difficulty in tracheal intubation]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Fernández Pérez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Cranfiel]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cordero Escobar]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Idoris]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Mora Díaz]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Isabel]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico &#8220;Hermanos Ameijeiras&#8221;  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[La Habana, ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>18</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1726-67182019000200005&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1726-67182019000200005&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1726-67182019000200005&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN  Introducción:  La intubación de la vía respiratoria difícil constituye un problema de salud. Para prevenirla, se han utilizado diferentes índices.  Objetivo:  Evaluar la utilidad del índice de El-Ganzouri en la predicción del grado de dificultad en la intubación traqueal mediante laringoscopia convencional.  Método:  Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de corte transversal, en pacientes que requirieron intubación traqueal, en el Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, entre febrero de 2014 y 2017. Esta prueba combina y estratifica siete variables derivadas de parámetros observacionales asociadas individualmente. Se estratificó sus valores y se interpretó &lt; 4 vía respiratoria de fácil acceso y &#8805; 4 vía respiratoria de difícil acceso.  Resultados:  Se estudiaron 94 pacientes en los que se evaluó el índice de El-Ganzouri. Predominó el grupo etáreo de 50 a 59 años (29,8 %) y el sexo masculino 52,1 %. ASA II fue más frecuente en 66 %. El índice de El Ganzouri primó la apertura oral &lt; 4 cm, la distancia tiromentoniana &gt; 6.5 cm, El Mallamapati I en 91,5 %, los movimientos del cuello &gt; 90°, el peso corporal &lt; 90 kg y ningún antecedente de historia de dificultad en la intubación 67,0 %. Al corroborar las pruebas predictivas con la de Cormack y Lehane, se observó que 92,6 % de los pacientes presentaron una vía respiratoria fácil y esta condición se obtuvo en el 78,7 % con el Índice El Ganzouri. La sensibilidad fue de 71,43 % y la especificidad fue de 20,69 %. El valor predictivo positivo de 6,76 y 90,0 de predictivo negativo.  Conclusiones:  Se confirmó la utilidad del índice de riesgo multivariado de El-Ganzouri en la predicción del grado de dificultad en la intubación traqueal mediante laringoscopia convencional. Se identificó la sensibilidad, especificidad, valores predictivos positivos y negativos los cuales mostraron buena predicción de vía respiratoria anatómicamente difícil.]]></p></abstract>
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