Comparing success rates of anesthesia providers versus trauma surgeons in their use of palpation to identify the cricothyroid membrane in female subjects: a prospective observational study;Comparaison des taux de réussite des anesthésistes et des chirurgiens de trauma dans l’utilisation de la palpation pour identifier la membrane cricothyroïdienne chez des patientes: une étude observationnelle prospective

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 807-817

  Hiller, Kenneth N ^a   Karni, Ron J ^b   Cai, Chunyun ^b   Holcomb, John B ^c   Hagberg, Carin A ^b  

^a MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANESTHESIST; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRICOTHYROID MEMBRANE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID GLAND; TRAUMA SURGEON; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANESTHESIOLOGIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGEON; THYROID CARTILAGE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGISTS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGEONS; THYROID CARTILAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84966694903     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: 14968975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-016-0647-5     Document Type: Article

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