Patients can locate the cricoid cartilage on the body surface in several ways: i. Patients can first locate the cricoid cartilage by locating the thyroid cartilage and then the cricoid cartilage. This is because the cricoid cartilage is immediately below the thyroid cartilage. At this point, the patient is asked to tilt his head back, after which an obvious bony protrusion can be seen or felt at the front of the neck right in the middle. This area is commonly known as the laryngeal node, and is the location of the thyroid cartilage. The first bony protrusion that can be felt is the cricoid cartilage when the nail cartilage is touched down along the anterior midline of the body. However, what we can feel on the surface of the body is only the first half of the cricoid cartilage, and the second half is usually covered by the surrounding soft tissue and cannot be easily touched. Second, the patient can locate the cricoid cartilage from below the cricoid cartilage, which is the location of the trachea. At this point, the patient is still asked to tilt the head back to fully expose the front of the neck, where the body organs are located. The first bony prominence that can be palpated along the anterior midline is the cricoid cartilage. This is because below the cricoid cartilage is the C-shaped cartilage, which is a channel of mostly incomplete cartilage and therefore relatively soft, and it is at this part of the cricoid cartilage that it is hard. This allows for its effective positioning.