- Previous airway management documentation
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- Check anesthesia records for previous difficulties and ask patients whether they are aware of any anesthetic problems
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- Conditions associated with airway difficulties
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- History of difficult airway
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- History of aspiration pneumonia after intubation
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- History of dental or oral trauma following intubation
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- Head and neck irradiation
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- Klippel-Feil abnormalities of the cervical spine
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- Significant sore throat after anesthesia
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- Previous airway injury during anesthesia
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- Patient reporting need for a "small tube"
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- Head, neck, and oropharyngeal
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