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DIFFICULT AIRWAYS AND MENDELSON'S SYNDROME IS ULTRASONOGRAPHY ABLE TO PREVENT THEM?

Radev VR, Tsankov LI, Stefanovski PH, Bogdanov SH, Stefanovska NTS, Tonchev PT, Totsev N, Radev PN


Every anesthesiologist has fallen into difficulty maintaining the airway. The purpose of this summary is present ability to perform prevention of aspiration of gastric contents of patients at risk for a difficult intubation and ventilation mask. Mendelson's syndrome is still in first place as cause of death related to anesthesia. At present there are neither quantitative criteria or scales, which would assess the potential risk of this complication at induction of anesthesia, but in recent years, with the widespread use of abdominal ultrasonography by calculating the antral surface and the amount of gastric contents, relatively accurately can predict the risk of regurgitation and development of the syndrome of Mendelson.