EBQ:Incidence and predictors of difficult and impossible mask ventilation

incomplete Journal Club Article

Kheterpal S. et al. "Incidence and predictors of difficult and impossible mask ventilation.". Anesthesiology. 2006. 105(5):885-891.
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1 The following factors were found to predict a grade 3 or 4 level of difficulty with mask ventilation

	beard
	history of snoring
	age>70
	BMI greater than or equal to 26
	beard and age > 70
	beard, history of snoring, and BMI>30

2 Patients categorised as having impossible mask ventilation are usually not intubatable

	false
	true

3 Thyromental distance < 6cm was associated with difficult mask ventilation:

	True
	False