Should the Ramped Position Be "Sniffed at" in the ICU?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA. Electronic address: stephen.heard@umassmed.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA.

Editorial

J Aaron Scott et al. Chest. 2017 Oct.

. 2017 Oct;152(4):693-694.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.06.002.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA. Electronic address: stephen.heard@umassmed.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA.

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A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Ramped Position vs Sniffing Position During Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults.
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