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The Mallampati index was proven to be applicable in children 4 to 8 years old.

Summary: Santos APSV, Mathias LAST, Gozzani JL, Watanabe M -Difficult Intubation in Children: Applicability of the Mallampati Index. Background and objectives:The concern of facing difficult airways brought the need of developing predictive testing for difficult intubation. Those tests were developed primarily for adult populations. In pediatric patients studies always focus on patients with congenital malformation, polytraumatized, and newborns. The objective of the present study was to determine the applicability of the predictive test used more often in adults, the Mallampati index, in patients 4 to 8 years old, correlating it with the Cormack-Lehane index.

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