Accuracy of conventional digital palpation and ultrasound of the cricothyroid membrane in obese women in labour

Anaesthesia

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1230-1234

  You Ten, K E ^a   Desai, D ^a   Postonogova, T ^a   Siddiqui, N ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL DIGITAL PALPATION; CRICOID; CRICOTHYROID MEMBRANE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR; MATERNAL OBESITY; NECK CIRCUMFERENCE; PALPATION; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; THYROID GLAND; TRACHEOTOMY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MORPHOMETRICS; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CRICOID CARTILAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; OBESITY; PALPATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID CARTILAGE;

EID: 84943585585     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13167     Document Type: Article

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