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Assessment of the Difficult Airway

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Should be performed on all patients that require airway management, conditions permitting

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Melinda W. Fernandez

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Lars K. Beattie

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Correspondence to Melinda W. Fernandez .

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  1. College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Latha Ganti

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Fernandez, M.W., Beattie, L.K. (2022). Assessment of the Difficult Airway. In: Ganti, L. (eds) Atlas of Emergency Medicine Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85047-0_12

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