• Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Nov 2018

    Observational Study

    Ultrasound measurement of anatomical parameters of the upper airway in adults.

    • L Gómez-López, B Torres, R Bergé, O Aguirre, M Luis, and X Sala-Blanch.
    • Servicio de Anestesiología, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.
    • Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim. 2018 Nov 1; 65 (9): 495-503.

    BackgroundMost of the works on ultrasound airway anatomy are limited to a morphological description. A study was conducted in order to provide an objective normal range of measurements.Materials And MethodsObservational study to describe the ultrasound characteristics of the upper airway in adults without clinical difficult airway criteria, compared to cadaver dissection anatomical models.ResultsThe study included 45 volunteers (27 men and 18 women), and 3fresh cadavers. The quality of the examination was very good/good in 93% of the cases.Measurementstracheal diameter (1.3±0.3cm), vocal cord (1.6±0.5cm), cricothyroid membrane (0.94±0.32cm), cricotracheal membrane (0.3±0.09cm), thickness of the muscles in the floor of the mouth (MFM) (1.5±0.26cm), sub-mandibular subcutaneous fat plus MFM (2.11±0.34cm), hyoid-mandible distance (5.35±0.69cm), palate-floor of the mouth distance (4.92±0.5cm), palate-anterior border of the mandible (5.51±0.7cm), and palate-pharynx angle (114±14). Observed differences: Males had a larger tracheal diameter than females (M: 1.4±0.3 vs. F: 1.2±0.2cm, p=0.014). Subject height showed a significant correlation with the tracheal diameter (R: 0.501, p<0.001), as well as the length of the vocal cord (R: 0.363, p=0.016), the thickness of MFM (R=0.299, p=0.046) as well as the hyoid-mandible (R: 0.556; p<0.001) and palate-mandible distances (R: 0.362; p=0.015).ConclusionsUltrasound allows the anatomy of upper airway to be evaluated, as well as to calculate distances between the anatomical structures. The study defines these distances in adult volunteers without clinical difficult airway criteria.Copyright © 2018 Sociedad Española de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Terapéutica del Dolor. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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