Laryngeal View During Laryngoscopy: A Randomized Trial Comparing Cricoid Pressure, Backward-Upward-Rightward Pressure, and Bimanual Laryngoscopy

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 548-555

  Levitan, Richard M ^a   Kinkle, William C ^a   Levin, William J ^b   Everett, Worth W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRICOID; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CADAVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LARYNGOSCOPY; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PRESSURE;

EID: 33646516261     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.01.013     Document Type: Article

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