[PROGNOSTICATION OF "HARD" TRACHEAL INTUBATION IN PATIENTS, SUFFERING PURULENT-INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE JAW-FACIAL REGION].

Clinical follow-up was conducted in 75 patients, to whom the operation and intensive therapy were performed in 2006-2015 yrs for phlegmon of the neck. Difficulties while providing passability of respiratory ways have occurred in 73.3% patients. It was established, that the predictors of "hard" tracheal intubation in patients, operated on for cervical phlegmon, are follows: the cervical tissues oedema, restriction of the mouth opening lesser than 3 cm, odontogenous phlegmon of oral cavity and the neck, rigid epiglottis, the larynx oedema. Presence of these factors demands application of endoscopic methods for tracheal intubation in such patients.