Table 2.
Details of the data collection forms regarding anaesthetic management
| Anaesthetic management | |
| Items | Contents for reporting |
| Status of nil per os | Yes/no |
| Full-stomach pathophysiology | Yes/no |
| Drainage of gastric contents before airway management | Yes/no |
| Premedication | None, midazolam, diazepam, others |
| Syndrome assuming difficult airway | Yes/no |
| Preoperative difficult airway evaluation | None, preoperative recognition of possible difficult airway, history of difficult airway, limited cervical range of motion, width of mouth opening ≤2 patient’s fingers, hyomental distance ≤2 patient’s fingers, upper airway obstruction, midface hypoplasia, macroglossia, micrognacia, macrocephaly. |
| Difficult mask ventilation | Yes/no |
| Types of anaesthesia induction | Inhalational with or without maintaining spontaneous breathing, intravenous with or without maintaining spontaneous breathing, rapid sequence induction with or without positive pressure ventilation, awake induction with only topical local anaesthetics, others. |