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Table 3 Clinical predictors of the easy and difficult laryngoscopy groups and their values for predicting difficult laryngoscopy

From: Identification of difficult laryngoscopy using an optimized hybrid architecture

Items

Easy laryngoscopy group (\(n=548\))

Difficult laryngoscopy group (\(n=123\))

P values

AUC

IIG (cm)

4.4 ± 0.6

4.1 ± 0.6

\(<0.001\)

0.659

TMD (cm)

L7.9 ± 1.5

7.6 ± 1.7

0.028

0.560

MMT [class I II/class III IV]

371(67.7%)/177(32.3%)

64(52.0%)/59(48.0%)

0.003

0.596

  1. \(^a\)Abbreviations: IIG inter-incisor gap, TMD thyromental distance, MMT modified Mallampati test, AUC area under the curve