Forces applied during laryngoscopy and their relationship with patient characteristics

摘要: Summary The relationships between patients' height, weight, age, body mass index, gender and presence of maxillary incisors a series laryngoscopic factors have been studied. These included the duration laryngoscopy, maximally applied force, mean force integral over time. There was positive correlation height weight factors. Sex age also showed but these could be explained by differences in incisors. This latter factor dominant patient characteristic influencing measured Use as measure difficulty laryngoscopy is discussed.