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Beyond Mallampati: From Universal Bedside Tests to Precision Airway Risk Stratification – A Narrative Review

2026-08-24

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Airway management remains one of the few domains of anaesthetic practice still governed by universal, dichotomous screening thresholds applied to profoundly heterogeneous populations. Conventional bedside tests — the modified Mallampati test, thyromental distance and the upper lip bite test — retain modest and inconsistent diagnostic accuracy, leaving the majority of difficult intubations unanticipated while gener...

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Literature Corpus work: 2f9ce53c-f852-5c5f-a20a-cb0dad2d4ccc
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202608.1691.v1

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