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This chapter reviews how to perform a detailed preoperative evaluation of a patient’s airway including a twelve-step approach to assessing the teeth, palate, oropharynx, neck, and range of motion of the head and neck. It also reviews critical structures of the airway, broken down into the components of nasopharynx, oropharynx, larynx, and tracheobronchial tree. It also outlines important distances within the airway which can be used to assess appropriate depth of endotracheal tube positioning.
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Stone DJ, Gal TJ. Chapter 42: airway management. In: Miller RD, editor. Anesthesia. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone; 1994. p. 1404–19.
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Sampankanpanich Soria, C., Lee, D.E., Manecke, G.R. (2021). Airway Anatomy and Tracheobronchial Tree. In: Anesthesiology Resident Manual of Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65732-1_1
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