The cricoid force necessary to occlude the esophageal entrance: Is there a gender difference?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1168-1173

  Zeidan, Ahed M ^a,b   Salem, M Ramez ^c,d   Bamadhaj, Munir ^e   Mazoit, Jean Xavier ^f   Sadek, Hussein ^a,g   Houjairy, Hassan ^a   Abdulkhaleq, Kamal ^a   Bamadhaj, Nabil ^h  

^a Procare Riaya Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^e KING FAHAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^f Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^g AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^h Almutlaq Holding ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRICOID CARTILAGE; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FORCE; FORCE GAUGE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH TUBE; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL REFLUX; LARYNGOSCOPE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CRICOID CARTILAGE; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL REFLUX; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85009415047     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001631     Document Type: Article

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