Is cricoid pressure necessary?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-4

  Brock Utne, J G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CRICOID; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX INJURY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TECHNIQUE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VOMITING;

ANESTHESIA; CHILD; CRICOID CARTILAGE; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE;

EID: 0036153839     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00824.x     Document Type: Review

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