The accuracy of locating the cricothyroid membrane by palpation - an intergender study

BMC Anesthesiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Campbell, Mark ^a   Shanahan, Hilary ^a   Ash, Simon ^a   Royds, Jonathan ^a   Husarova, Viera ^a   McCaul, Conan ^a,b,c  

^a ROTUNDA HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Airway; Anaesthesia Emergency; Anatomy; Complications Hypoxia; Complications Airway Obstruction; Training

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CRICOTHYROID MEMBRANE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK CIRCUMFERENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGENATION; PALPATION; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; THYROID GLAND; TRACHEOTOMY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STANDARDS;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THYROID CARTILAGE;

EID: 84926392370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2253-14-108     Document Type: Article

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