Effect of paramedic experience on orotracheal intubation success rates
| Autor: | Matthew C Gratton, O. John Ma, Alex G. Garza, Elizabeth Noble, Darryl Coontz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Artificial ventilation
Out of hospital medicine.medical_specialty Emergency Medical Services business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Retrospective cohort study Surgery Heart Arrest Emergency Medical Technicians Intensive care Anesthesia Orotracheal intubation Emergency Medicine Emergency medical services Intubation Intratracheal Medicine Intubation Humans Clinical Competence business Airway Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of emergency medicine. 25(3) |
| ISSN: | 0736-4679 |
| Popis: | This study's objective was to determine the effect of paramedic experience on orotracheal intubation success in prehospital adult nontraumatic cardiac arrest patients. This retrospective study analyzed all attempted intubations of prehospital adult nontraumatic cardiac arrest patients between January 1, 1997 and April 30, 1997 in an urban, all ALS service. Data were abstracted from EMS reports and intubation data forms. Variables included months of experience, number of patients in whom intubation was attempted, number of intubation attempts, success per attempt, and success per patient. Ninety-eight paramedics performed 909 intubations on 1066 cardiac arrest patients, yielding an intubation success rate of 85.3%. The median months of experience was 59.5 (Range 5-223). The median number of patients in whom intubation was attempted per paramedic was 10 (Range 1-36). The mean intubation success rate per paramedic was 80.6% (+/- 22.4, 95% CI 76.1, 85.1). There was significant correlation between total number of patients in whom intubation was attempted and intubation success rate (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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