Use of cricoid pressure during rapid sequence induction: Facts and fiction

Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 123-127

  Priebe, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway management; Cricoid pressure; Rapid sequence induction

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CRICOID; CRICOID PRESSURE; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STOMACH CONTENT; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER;

EID: 84860624751     PISSN: 22108440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tacc.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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