ReviewJournal of intensive care2016
Role of upper airway ultrasound in airway management.
Review in Journal of intensive care, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 56 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Comparison of Ultrasound-guided Location of Laryngeal Mask With Air Leakage Test: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Airway Ultrasound As an Independent Predictor of Difficult Laryngoscopy in Patients Receiving General Anesthesia for Elective Surgery
Who cites it
56 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 166 citations in OpenAlex.
- Point-of-care ultrasound of the upper airway in difficult airway management: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Anaesthesia · 2025Pooled it
- Useful Ultrasonographic Parameters to Predict Difficult Laryngoscopy and Difficult Tracheal Intubation-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Ultrasound-guided versus Shikani optical stylet-aided tracheal intubation: a prospective randomized study.BMC anesthesiology · 2020Trial
- Evaluation of Airway Assessment Parameters: Hyomental Distance versus Ultrasound-guided Pretracheal Tissue Thickness as Predictors of Difficult Laryngoscopy.Annals of African medicine · 2026Observational
- Ultrasonography and a novel combined prediction model for anticipating hypoxemia during painless gastroscopy.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2026Article
- Airway Ultrasound: Applications in Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2026Review
- Percutaneous tracheostomy in Costa Rican intensive care units: multicenter epidemiology, practices, and immediate complications.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2026Article
- Predicting difficult videolaryngoscopic intubation in patients with obesity using ultrasound: an observational, prospective study.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2026Observational
- Clinical roles of point-of-care ultrasonography in airway management.Anesthesia and pain medicine · 2025Review
- Predictive factors in difficult postoperative airway management of severe odontogenic deep neck infection.Odontology · 2025Article
- Airway Ultrasound: A Narrative Review of Present Use and Future Applications in Anesthesia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Difficult Airway: Is this the Time to Focus on Point-of-care Ultrasonography?Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- Echocardiography in Cardiac Arrest: Incremental Diagnostic and Prognostic Role during Resuscitation Care.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Vital Tool for Anesthesiologists in the Perioperative and Critical Care Settings.Cureus · 2024Review
- The role of upper airway ultrasonography in tracheal necrosis diagnosis: a case report.The ultrasound journal · 2024Article
- Ultrasound-guided percutaneous tracheostomy: a risk-based protocol.The ultrasound journal · 2024Article
- A Randomised Control Study Comparing Ultrasonography with Standard Clinical Methods in Assessing Endotracheal Tube Tip Positioning.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2024Article
- Trends in Preoperative Airway Assessment.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A quantitative study of airway ultrasound in predicting difficult laryngoscopy: A prospective study.Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi · 2023Observational
- Insights into the Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Upper airway ultrasound is a valuable, non-invasive, simple, and portable point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for evaluation of airway management even in anatomy distorted by pathology or trauma. Ultrasound enables us to identify important sonoanatomy of the upper airway such as thyroid cartilage, epiglottis, cricoid cartilage, cricothyroid membrane, tracheal cartilages, and esophagus. Understanding this applied sonoanatomy facilitates clinician to use ultrasound in assessment of airway anatomy for difficult intubation, ETT and LMA placement and depth, assessment of airway size, ultrasound-guided invasive procedures such as percutaneous needle cricothyroidotomy and tracheostomy, prediction of postextubation stridor and left double-lumen bronchial tube size, and detecting upper airway pathologies. Widespread POCUS awareness, better technological advancements, portability, and availability of ultrasound in most critical areas facilitate upper airway ultrasound to become the potential first-line non-invasive airway assessment tool in the future.
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