Ultrasonographic identification of the cricothyroid membrane

Anaesthesia

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 649-650

  Teoh, W H ^a   Kristensen, M S ^b  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CRICOTHYROID MEMBRANE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; LETTER; OXYGENATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; RESPIRATION CONTROL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MOUTH FLOOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84900384458     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12735     Document Type: Letter

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