ASSESSMENT OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD OF TEACHING CRICOID
PRESSURE FORCE
Short title: The most effective method of teaching cricoid
pressure force
Jasmine Whitaker,1 Natalie Elsdon2,
John Moran3, Jonathan Hulme4 and
Sandra Peake5
1 Anaesthetics Core Trainee, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, United
Kingdom, 2 Medical student, University of Birmingham Medical School,
Birmingham, United Kingdom, 3 Associate Professor and Critical Care
Consultant, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, 4
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Sandwell and West
Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 6 Professor and
Critical Care Consultant, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide,
Australia
Submitting and corresponding author: Jasmine Whitaker
Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Gwent Hospital, Cardiff Rd, Newport
NP20 2UB, United Kingdom.
Email: jjmwhitaker@gmail.com, Telephone:
07828270568.
*Presented as oral presentation at the World Congress of Intensive Care
2019, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Melbourne, Australia,
14-18 October 2019
Presented as poster presentation at The Combined New Zealand Anaesthesia
Annual Scientific Meeting + Annual Queenstown Update in Anaesthesia
(AQUA) 2019, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, Queenstown, New Zealand, 21
- Saturday 24 August 2019.
The author’s institutional affiliations where the work was
carried out: City and Sandwell Hospitals, Birmingham
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the
corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Keywords: cricoid pressure; rapid sequence induction; teaching
methods