#cricoid

JC: Cricoid Pressure and RSI, do we still need it? St Emlyn’s

This blog reviews the first large randomised controlled trial of cricoid pressure in emergency patients as published in JAMA Surgery, October 2018.

Cricoid pressure is controversial. Although it has been taught in anaesthesia practice as an essential requirement when performing RSI, the evidence for its benefit and lack of risk is far from compelling1. The late Dr John Hinds famously brought this…

Mika playing keyboard at V Festival 2007 in Weston Park, Staffordshire, by Seraphim Whipp under CC BY 2.5 Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t think there’s any one right way to sing or any one method to get you there. If you listen to the singers out there, they’re producing a wide range…