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What is the best option for intubating patients who are low probability for difficult ventilation?
Calder, I. Could safe practice be compromising safe practice? Should anaesthetists have to demonstrate that face mask ventilation is possible before giving a neuromuscular blocker? Anesthesia 2008 63 (113-5) Turlough OHare PGY5 McMaster Anesthesia
Hx snoring and BMI 31 (175cm, 95kg)? Hx 60yo with beard and BMI 31? Hx OSA, thick neck and BMI 31?
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2. Horns of a Dilemma
Enough hypnotic to mask-ventilate
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Fear may result in under dosing