The height of the cricothyroid membrane on computed tomography scans in trauma patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 987-992

  Nutbeam, T ^a   Clarke, R ^a   Luff, T ^a   Enki, D ^b   Gay, D ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

difficult airway algorithm; failed intubation: treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CALIPER; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRICOTHYROID MEMBRANE; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE; MIDDLE AGED; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRACHEOTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CRICOID CARTILAGE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRICOID CARTILAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018994046     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13905     Document Type: Article

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