A novel risk score for the prediction of airway management in patients with deep neck space abscess: a multicenter retrospective cohort study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by each institutional Ethics Committee for Research and Publication. Written informed consent was waived owing to the use of deidentified retrospective data. Consent for publicationNot applicable Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2020YFC1316903), National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 81972528), 5010 Clinical Research Program of Sun Yat-Sen University (No. 2017004), Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project (China) (No. 201704020092), and Nature Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2018A030313620)."