TY - JOUR
T1 - Pre-hospital advanced airway management by experienced anaesthesiologists
T2 - a prospective descriptive study
AU - Rognås, Leif
AU - Hansen, Troels Martin
AU - Kirkegaard, Hans
AU - Tønnesen, Else
PY - 2013/7/25
Y1 - 2013/7/25
N2 - We report data from the first Utstein-style study of physician-provided pre-hospital advanced airway management.Materials and methodsAnaesthesiologists from eight pre-hospital critical care teams in the Central Denmark Region (a mixed rural and urban region with 1.27 million inhabitants) prospectively registered data according to the template for reporting data from pre-hospital advanced airway management. Data collection took place from February 1st 2011 to October 31st 2012. Included were patients of all ages on whom pre-hospital advanced airway management was performed. The objective was to estimate the incidences of failed and difficult pre-hospital endotracheal intubation, and complications related to pre-hospital advanced airway management.
AB - We report data from the first Utstein-style study of physician-provided pre-hospital advanced airway management.Materials and methodsAnaesthesiologists from eight pre-hospital critical care teams in the Central Denmark Region (a mixed rural and urban region with 1.27 million inhabitants) prospectively registered data according to the template for reporting data from pre-hospital advanced airway management. Data collection took place from February 1st 2011 to October 31st 2012. Included were patients of all ages on whom pre-hospital advanced airway management was performed. The objective was to estimate the incidences of failed and difficult pre-hospital endotracheal intubation, and complications related to pre-hospital advanced airway management.
U2 - 10.1186/1757-7241-21-58
DO - 10.1186/1757-7241-21-58
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 23883447
SN - 1757-7241
VL - 21
SP - 58
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
IS - 1
ER -