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Preoperative assessment of the airway is a critical step in ensuring patient safety and predicting the success of advanced airway rescue techniques during office sedation or anesthesia.
Preoperative airway assessment is a critical step for ensuring patient safety and predicting the success of advanced airway rescue techniques in ambulatory office practice.
Emphasizes airway assessment for safety in office anesthesia; leaves open need for validated predictors in prospective studies.
Whenever a patient is about to receive sedation or general anesthesia, no matter what the technique, the preoperative assessment of the airway is one of the most important steps in ensuring patient safety and positive outcomes. This article, Part III in the series on airway management, is directed at the ambulatory office practice and focuses on predicting the success of advanced airway rescue techniques.
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Rosenberg et al. (2015) conducted a review in Sedation or general anesthesia. Preoperative airway assessment was evaluated. Preoperative assessment of the airway is a critical step in ensuring patient safety and predicting the success of advanced airway rescue techniques during office sedation or anesthesia.
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