Background: “Short Neck” is a term used by anesthesiologists and emergency physicians to describe one of the risk factors of difficult airway management, but there is no consensus on what length constitutes a short neck. Study Objective: To measure neck length and associate it with intubation difficulty in obese patients, the secondary objective is to find any relationship between a short neck, difficult in intubation, and increasing body mass index. Design: A pilot, cross-sectional prospective single-blinded study. Sample: 97 adult patients scheduled for elective surgery, in Hamad General Hospital between March 2018 and October 2018, under general anesthesia, were recruited for the study.
Results: Airway assessment using anthropometric measurements, including neck length, were documented prior to anesthesia. Operators (anesthesiologists) were blinded. Intubation Difficult Scale…
