Learning to apply effective cricoid pressure using a part task trainer

Anaesthesia

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1098-1101

  Owen, H ^a   Follows, V ^a   Reynolds, K J ^a   Burgess, G ^a   Plummer, J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; cricoid pressure, simulation; Education; medical methods

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CRICOID; FORCE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEAD; LARYNX; LEARNING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MODEL; NECK; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; SIMULATOR; STAFF TRAINING; STUDENT;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MANIKINS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE; TEACHING MATERIALS;

EID: 0036843306     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2002.02836.x     Document Type: Article

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