Cricoid pressure: Are two hands better than one?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 365-368

  Cook, T M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications, aspiration; Intubation, tracheal; cricoid pressure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICOID; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESSURE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CRICOID CARTILAGE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0029879253     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1996.tb07750.x     Document Type: Article

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