How do you handle a difficult airway?

Options include a video laryngoscope, Combitube, bougies, intubating laryngeal mask airway, intubating stylet, fiber-optic bronchoscope, and an articulating laryngoscope .

“L-E-M-O-N” score calculation: The airway assessment score was calculated thus: ‘LOOK’ Criteria: Facial trauma (Absent = 0 point, Present = 1 point), Large incisors (Absent = 0 point, Present = 1 point), Beard or moustache (Absent = 0 point, Present = 1 point), Large tongue (Absent = 0 point, Present = 1 point).

Noninvasive interventions intended to manage a difficult airway include, but are not limited to: (1) awake intubation, (2) video-assisted laryngoscopy, (3) intubating stylets or tube-changers, (4) SGA for ventilation (e.g., LMA, laryngeal tube), (5) SGA for intubation (e.g., ILMA), (6) rigid laryngoscopic blades of …

ASA practice guidelines “a difficult airway is defined as the clinical situation in which a conventionally trained anesthesiologist experiences difficulty with face mask ventilation of the upper airway, difficulty with tracheal intubation, or both ”.