Variable application and misapplication of cricoid pressure

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1182-1184

  Brisson, Paul ^a   Brisson, Michael ^b  

^a DEWITT ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cricoid; Cricoid pressure; Sellick maneuver

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRICOID; CRICOID PRESSURE; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FINGER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INTUBATION; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NURSE ANESTHETIST; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT; PRESSURE AND TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTERED NURSE; RESPIRATORY THERAPIST; SELLICK MANEUVER; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PRESSURE; REGURGITATION, GASTRIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID CARTILAGE;

EID: 78549291701     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181d2793e     Document Type: Article

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