Cricoid pressure: An alternative view

Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 120-126

  Priebe, Hans Jaochim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway management; Cricoid pressure; Rapid sequence induction

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASPIRATION; BREATHING; CRICOID; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX INJURY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SAFETY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 22844436234     PISSN: 02770326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sane.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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