Retrospective Analysis of Factors Associated With Increased Anesthesia Ready Time in Patients With Odontogenic Infections

For patients with odontogenic infections, the strongest predictor of increased ART is the choice of FS technique. Other factors that may be associated with increased ART are severe airway deviation, number of spaces involved, involvement of the sublingual, lateral pharyngeal, or retropharyngeal spaces, although these other factors lose statistical significance after correction for multiple comparisons.