Are physician assistant and patient airway assessments reliable compared to anesthesiologist assessments in detecting difficult airways in general surgical patients?

Erin PayneJacqueline RaghebElizabeth S JewellBetsy P HuangAngela M BaileyLaura M FritschMilo C Engoren

Published in: Perioperative medicine (London, England) (2017)

Neither the patients' self-assessments nor the physician assistants' assessments were adequate to substitute for the anesthesiologists' airway assessments.

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