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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2023

Airway Management of Orofacial Infections Originating in the Mandible.

Andreas Sakkas, Christel Weiß, Wolfgang Zink, Camila Alejandra Rodriguez, Mario Scheurer, Sebastian Pietzka, Frank Wilde, Oliver Christian Thiele, Robert Andreas Mischkowski, Marcel Ebeling

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Andreas SakkasDepartment of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial-Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Christel WeißMedical Statistics and Biomathematics, Mannheim Medical Faculty of the Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany.
Wolfgang ZinkDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Ludwigshafen Hospital, 67063 Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Camila Alejandra RodriguezDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Mario ScheurerDepartment of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial-Surgery, German Armed Forces Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Sebastian PietzkaDepartment of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial-Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Frank WildeDepartment of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial-Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Oliver Christian ThieleDepartment of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial-Surgery, Ludwigshafen Hospital, 67063 Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Robert Andreas MischkowskiDepartment of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial-Surgery, Ludwigshafen Hospital, 67063 Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Marcel EbelingDepartment of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial-Surgery, German Armed Forces Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
University Hospital Ulm · DEKlinikum Ludwigshafen · DEUniversity Hospital Heidelberg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The primary aim of this study was to assess the incidence of a difficult airway and emergency tracheostomy in patients with orofacial infections originating in the mandible, and a secondary aim was to determine the potential predictors of difficult intubation. This retrospective single-center study included all patients who were referred between 2015 and 2022 with an orofacial infection originating in the mandible and who were surgically drained under intubation anesthesia. The incidence of a difficult airway regarding ventilation, laryngoscopy, and intubation was analyzed descriptively. Associations between potential influencing factors and difficult intubation were examined via multivariable analysis. A total of 361 patients (mean age: 47.7 years) were included in the analysis. A difficult airway was present in 121/361 (33.5%) patients. Difficult intubation was most common in patients with infections of the massetericomandibular space (42.6%), followed by infections of the mouth floor (40%) and pterygomandibular space (23.5%). Dyspnea and stridor were not associated with the localization of infection (

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airway managementintubationmandibular infectionsodontogenic abscessorofacial infectiontracheostomy

Identifiers

PMID37373939
PMCPMC10304000
OpenAlexW4379471659

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