Practice makes perfect? Evaluation of cricoid pressure task training for use within the algorithm for rapid sequence induction in critical care

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 207-212

  May, Peter ^a   Trethewy, Christopher ^a  

^a Tamworth Base Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biofeedback trainer; Cricoid force; Cricoid pressure; Rapid sequence induction; Task trainer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICOID; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; JOB PERFORMANCE; LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL REFLUX; LUNG VENTILATION; NURSING CARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING;

ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34250335300     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2007.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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