Big data: Airway management at a university hospital over 16 years; a retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Little is known about the current practice of airway management in Germany and its development over the last decades. The present study was, therefore, designed to answer the following questions. Which airway management procedures have been performed over the last 16 years and how has the frequency of these procedures changed over time? Is there a relationship between patient characteristics or surgical specialisation and the type of airway management performed?

Methods

In the present study, we used our in-house data acquisition and accounting system to retrospectively analyse airway management data for all patients who underwent a surgical or medical procedure with anaesthesiological care at our tertiary care facility over the past 16 years. 340,748 airway managemen

SUBMITTER: Hummel R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9488754 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature