Cricoid pressure: Ritual or effective measure?

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 620-622

  Loganathan, Nivan ^a   Liu, Eugene Hern Choon ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cricoid pressure; Regurgitation

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CRICOID; CRICOID PRESSURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; FRACTURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; INCIDENCE; LARYNGEAL MASK; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RETCHING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STOMACH TUBE;

CRICOID CARTILAGE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE;

EID: 84870022522     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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