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Crisis management during anaesthesia: regurgitation, vomiting, and aspiration
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- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016Cricoid pressure and vomitingShow More
Dear Editor,
I congratulate the authors on this excellent series.
Some authors (for example[1,2]), regard active vomiting as a contraindication to cricoid pressure because of reported cases of oesaphageal rupture, and cadaveric experiments. This current paper, however, makes no mention of vomiting as a contraindication.
I would appreciate knowing whether authors reject this contrandication and bel...
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