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