Cricoid pressure: An evidence-based practice?

Middle East Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 485-492

  Priebe, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CRICOID; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; REVIEW;

ANESTHESIA; CRICOID CARTILAGE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE;

EID: 29144436711     PISSN: 05440440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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