TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Compromised Airway A1 - Juergens, Andrew L. A1 - Glover, Jenny A1 - Reddy, Manoj P. A2 - Stone, C. Keith A2 - Humphries, Roger L. A2 - Drigalla, Dorian A2 - Stephan, Maria PY - 2014 T2 - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatric Emergency Medicine AB - Endotracheal intubation of children may be more difficult compared with intubation of adults because of anatomical differences. A number of differences are illustrated in Figure 9–1. Children have a small mouth aperture with a hyomental distance of 1.5 cm or less in a newborn or infant and 3 cm or less in a child. Children also have impaired head and neck mobility, especially a child with Down syndrome or juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/12 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1106019582 ER -