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Rupture of the oesophagus during cricoid pressure
1Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.
Anaesthesia
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
Rupture of the oesophagus occurred during the application of cricoid pressure at induction of anaesthesia when the patient vomited. The patient, who was bleeding from a gastric ulcer, was found to have a lower oesophageal tear which, although repaired at operation, resulted in a fatal mediastinitis.