Is obstructive sleep apnea associated with difficult airway? Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective and retrospective cohort studies

• Mahesh Nagappa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mahesh Nagappa, David T. Wong, Frances Chung

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, University Hospital, Victoria Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph Health Care, Western University, London, ON, Canada

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• David T. Wong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mahesh Nagappa, David T. Wong, Frances Chung

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Crispiana Cozowicz ,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8058-4135

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• Satya Krishna Ramachandran ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Stavros G. Memtsoudis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Frances Chung

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mahesh Nagappa, David T. Wong, Frances Chung

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frances.chung@uhn.ca

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-3606

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