Effect of palpable vs. impalpable cricothyroid membranes in a simulated emergency front-of-neck access scenario

Anaesthesia

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 579-586

  Pairaudeau, C F ^a   Mendonca, C ^a   Hillermann, C ^a   Qazi, I ^a   Baker, P A ^b   Hodgson, R E ^c   Radhakrishna, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c INKOSI ALBERT LUTHULI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

difficult airway algorithm; failed intubation: treatment; management of difficult airway: obese patient

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; FRONT OF NECK ACCESS TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SIMULATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA; TRACHEOTOMY; VIDEORECORDING; ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPLICATION; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LARYNX MUSCLE; MANIKIN; NECK; OBESITY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; MALE; MANIKINS; NECK; OBESITY; PALPATION; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 85045249112     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.14218     Document Type: Article

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