Decision-Making Tool for Planning Camera-Assisted and Awake Intubation in Head and Neck Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Indication criteria for camera-assisted and awake tracheal intubation are vague. It is unknown if diagnostic and clinical data from multiple sources, such as transnasal videoendoscopy or symptoms for pharyngolaryngeal lesions, might improve preanesthesia airway management planning and decision-making in patients undergoing head and neck surgery.

Objective

To develop and validate a new decision-making tool (Evidence-Based Algorithm for the Expected Difficult Intubation [Expect-It]) and show noninferiority to the clinical standard (nonalgorithm-based decision-making).

Design, setting, and participants

This single-center study prospectively developed and validated a decision-making tool with a 2-stage design that included anesthetic cases from patients undergo

SUBMITTER: Popal Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12046521 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature