Airway Positioning - Flextension compared to Ramping Positions
The key to Flextension (= sniffing position) is getting ear anterior to coronal (not horizontal) plane at sternal notch, which requires base-of-neck flexion.
 - Nicholas Chrimes
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Eddy Joe MD @eddyjoemd · 6 years ago
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