Morphometric analysis and clinical application of the working dimensions of cricothyroid membrane in south Indian adults: With special relevance to surgical cricothyroidotomy: Original Article

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-20

  Prithishkumar, Ivan J ^a   David, Suresh S ^b  

^a MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Cricothyroid membrane; Cricothyroidotomy; Endotracheal tube; Subglottic larynx; Working dimension

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CRICOID; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INDIAN; LARYNX; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA; TRACHEOTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; CRICOID CARTILAGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77049084772     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2009.01245.x     Document Type: Article

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