Research Article
Magnitude and Predisposing Factors of Difficult Airway during Induction of General Anaesthesia
Table 5
Difficult intubation and difficult airway predictors.
| Variables | Sensitivity | Specificity | PVPT | PVNT | Area | value | 95% CI interval | Upper | Lower |
| OPV | 75% | 91.7% | 48.4% | 97.2% | 0.834 | <0.001 | 0.719 | 0.948 | JSD | 65% | 81.8% | 27.1% | 95.7% | 0.734 | 0.001 | 0.607 | 0.861 | ILL | 75% | 81.8% | 30% | 96.9% | 0.784 | <0.001 | 0.669 | 0.898 | Combined | 35% | 97.9% | 63.6% | 97.9% | 0.665 | 0.015 | 0.517 | 0.812 | SMD | 50% | 71.4% | 15.4% | 93.2% | 0.607 | 0.124 | 0.472 | 0.742 | MBL | 35% | 85.9% | 20.6% | 92.7% | 0.605 | 0.116 | 0.463 | 0.764 | TMD | 40% | 52.1% | 8% | 89.3% | 0.460 | 0.560 | 0.329 | 0.592 |
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