Cricoid pressure does not increase the rate of failed intubation by direct laryngoscopy in adults

Anesthesiology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 315-319

  Turgeon, Alexis F ^a   Nicole, Pierre C ^a   Trépanier, Claude A ^a   Marcoux, Sylvie ^a   Lessard, Martin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SUFENTANIL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CAPNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICOID; DEMOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CRICOID CARTILAGE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 13244297061     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200502000-00012     Document Type: Article

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