Mallampati score
Escala de Mallampati
- Date
- 1985 · confidence high
- Place
- Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Seshagiri Mallampati
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Clinical scale classifying the predicted difficulty of endotracheal intubation based on the visibility of oropharyngeal structures with the mouth open and tongue protruded; described by Seshagiri Mallampati in 1985 and extended by Samsoon and Young in 1987.
What it led to
- preoperative airway assessment
- reduced complications in general anesthesia
- standard anesthesiology protocols
- complementary difficult-airway prediction scales