Cricoid pressure: Beware the patient with a goitre

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 451-454

  Fairweather, N L ^a  

^a Raymond Terrace   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cricoid pressure: complications; Thyroid: goitre, haemorrhage, airway compromise

Indexed keywords

8 ISOPROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; ALFENTANIL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ERGOMETRINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; OXYTOCIN; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; PROPOFOL; PROSTAGLANDIN E; SEVOFLURANE; SUXAMETHONIUM; TRAMADOL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CRICOID; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GOITER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGOSCOPY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0041922602     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0303100415     Document Type: Article

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