Airway

Question 1

Cormack-Lehane

Answer 1

1-4

3,4 are correlated with difficult or failed airways

Question 2

C-L 1

Answer 2

Visualization of nearly the entire glottic aperture

Question 3

C-L 2

Answer 3

Visualization of posterior cords and arytenoids

Question 4

C-L 3

Answer 4

Epiglottis only visible

Question 5

C-L 4

Answer 5

No glottic structures visible

Question 6

Arytenoids

Answer 6

Era te noid

Question 7

LEMON

Answer 7

Look external - overall feel for if it will be difficult
Evaluate 3-3-2 mouth, mentum to chin-neck, chin-neck and thyroid notch
Mallampati
Obstruction
Neck mobility

Question 8

Mallampati

Answer 8

Class 1,2 easy tubes 
4 is 10% fail rate 
Open mouth wide with tongue all the way out without phonating
1-pillars
2-fauces
3-base of uvula
4-hard palate only

Question 9

4 cardinal signs airway obstruction

Answer 9

Hot potato voice
Difficulty swallowing
Stridor
Sensation of dyspnea

Question 10

MOANS BVM

Answer 10

Mask seal/male/mallampati
Obesity/obstruction
Age 
No teeth
Stiff/snoring

Question 11

RODS for extra glottic airway

Answer 11

Restricted mouth opening
Obstruction obesity
Disrupted/distorted airway
Stiff

Question 12

SMART for crics

Answer 12

Surgery recent or remote
Mass
Access/anatomy 
Radiation (and other deformity or scarring)
Tumah!

Question 13

Crash airway pt

Answer 13

Unconscious, near death, expected to be unresponsive to laryngoscopes