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Anaesthesia / Critical Care Emergency Medicine Standard airway assessment — Anaesthesia 1987

Modified Mallampati Classification

Predicts difficult laryngoscopy and intubation based on oropharyngeal visualisation. Class III/IV indicates potentially difficult airway. Assess with mouth fully open, tongue not protruded, no phonation.

Mouth fully open, tongue not protruded, patient seated, no phonation

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