The Inaccuracy of Using Landmark Techniques for Cricothyroid Membrane Identification: A Comparison of Three Techniques

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 908-914

  Bair, Aaron E ^a   Chima, Rupinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRICOTHYROID MEMBRANE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEMALE; FOUR FINGER TECHNIQUE; GENERAL PALPATION METHOD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NECK CREASE METHOD; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICOID; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARDS;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CRICOID CARTILAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIANS; THYROID CARTILAGE;

EID: 84938738557     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12732     Document Type: Article

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