Improving the C-MAC video laryngoscopic view when applying cricoid pressure by allowing access of assistant to the video screen

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 128-130

  Loughnan, T E ^a   Gunasekera, E ^a   Tan, T P ^a  

^a PENINSULA HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airway; C MAC; Equipment; Video laryngoscope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRICOID PRESSURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MONITOR; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PRESSURE; SKILL MIX; VIDEOENDOSCOPY;

EID: 84856432114     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1204000114     Document Type: Article

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