Background: Maintaining a patent airway in anesthetized patients is the important responsibility of an anesthesiologist. Objective: Study conducted with the objectives to evaluate sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), relative risk (RR), odd ratio (OR) and LR for various screening tests like upper lip bite test (ULBT), ratio of height to thyromental distance (RHTMD), interincisor gap (IIG), modified Mallampatti Test (MMT), thyromental distance (TMD) and head and neck movement (HNM) in isolation. Materials and Methods: In this prospective, single blinded observational study, 480 adult patients of either sex, ASA grade I and II were assessed and graded for ULBT, RHTMD, TMD, MMT, IIG, and HNM according to standard methods and association with the Cormack and Lehane grade.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.