Ultrasound-based assessment of tongue thickness for prediction of difficult laryngoscopy and intubation.

Background And Aims: Predicting difficult airway and preparedness for the same can help prevent catastrophic situations while handling the airway. With the increasing familiarity of anaesthesiologists to the use of ultrasound machine and its easy availability and non-invasiveness, we sought to study its utility in airway assessment, by measuring the thickness of tongue, to predict difficult laryngoscopy and intubation.

Material And Methods: A total of 85 patients undergoing elective surgeries under general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation were examined preoperatively.

Anaesthetic Management in Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy.

Young females undergoing thyroid surgery are apprehensive about the surgical scar. This leads to the introduction of Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy (TOET). TOET is gaining popularity for its minimally invasive and cosmetically sound approach to perform thyroidectomies in young patients.