Question

Modified MallamPati grading is used in assessment of

• A. Difficult intubation
• B. Airway obstruction
• C. Death due to aspiration
• D. Intubation

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Start from what the examiner sees. With the patient upright, mouth wide and tongue out, the visibility of the soft palate, uvula and tonsillar pillars is scored into four classes. This visual scale is the modified Mallampati test.

Step 2: The clinical question it answers is preoperative - can this airway be intubated easily? As the class rises from I to IV, the glottic view worsens, so the test flags patients in whom passing a tube may be hard.

Step 3: Evidence supports its use for difficult laryngoscopy and difficult intubation with good accuracy, while it performs poorly for predicting difficult mask ventilation. So its established indication is predicting difficult intubation.

Step 4: Ruling out the rest: it has nothing to do with quantifying airway obstruction, it is not an aspiration-mortality tool, and option d ("intubation") misses the point because the score forecasts difficulty rather than the procedure itself.
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