Cricoid Pressure Controversies: Narrative Review

Anesthesiology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 738-752

  Salem, M Ramez ^a,b   Khorasani, Arjang ^a   Zeidan, Ahed ^c   Crystal, George J ^b  

^a ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c Procare Riaya Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION; CADAVER; CARTILAGE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPRESSION INSTRUMENT; CRICOID CARTILAGE; CRICOID CARTILAGE FRACTURE; CRICOID PRESSURE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FORCE; GASTRIC INSUFFLATION; HEAD AND NECK POSITION; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIATRICS; POSITION; PRESSURE AND TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RARE DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SHARPS INJURY; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH TUBE; SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY DEVICE; VOMITING; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CRICOID CARTILAGE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85008352629     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001489     Document Type: Review

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