Cricoid pressure impedes positioning and ventilation through the laryngeal mask airway

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1035-1040

  Aoyama, Kazuyoshi ^a   Takenaka, Ichiro ^a   Sata, Takeyoshi ^a   Shigematsu, Akio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

airway: laryngeal mask; anaesthetic technique: cricoid pressure; equipment: airway, laryngeal mask

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICOID; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0029977537     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03011906     Document Type: Article

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