Airway Management in the Emergency Department (The OcEAN-Study) - a prospective single centre observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency airway management (AM) is a major key for successful resuscitation of critically ill non-traumatic (CINT) patients. Details of the AM of these patients in German emergency departments (ED) are unknown. This observational study describes epidemiology, airway techniques, success rates and complications of AM in CINT ED patients in the resuscitation room (RR).

Methods

Data was collected prospectively on adult CINT patients admitted to the RR of a single German university ED September 2014 to August 2015. Patient characteristics, out-of-hospital and in-hospital RR AM, complications and success rates were recorded using a self-developed airway registry form.

Results

During the study period 34,303 patients were admitted to the ED, out of those 21,074 pa

SUBMITTER: Bernhard M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6376794 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature