Trauma airway management in emergency departments: a multicentre, prospective, observational study in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Although successful airway management is essential for emergency trauma care, comprehensive studies are limited. We sought to characterise current trauma care practice of airway management in the emergency departments (EDs) in Japan.

Design

Analysis of data from a prospective, observational, multicentre registry-the Japanese Emergency Airway Network (JEAN) registry.

Setting

13 academic and community EDs from different geographic regions across Japan.

Participants

723 trauma patients who underwent emergency intubation from March 2010 through August 2012.

Outcome measures

ED characteristics, patient and operator demographics, methods of airway management, intubation success or failure at each attempt and adverse events.

Results

A total of

SUBMITTER: Nakao S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4322207 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature