Influence of clinical experience of the Macintosh laryngoscope on performance with the Pentax-AWS Airway Scope®, a rigid video-laryngoscope, by paramedics in Japan
Author(s) -
Kohei Ota,
Takuma Sadamori,
Shinji Kusunoki,
Tadatsugu Otani,
Tomoko Tamura,
Kazunobu Une,
Yoshiko Kida,
Junji Itai,
Yasumasa Iwasaki,
Nobuyuki Hirohashi,
Masakazu Nakao,
Koichi Tanigawa
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.599
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1438-8359
pISSN - 0913-8668
DOI - 10.1007/s00540-014-1960-1
Subject(s) - medicine , intubation , anesthesia , anesthesiology , airway , tracheal intubation , airway management , video laryngoscope
We sought to establish the clinical utility of the Pentax-AWS Airway Scope(®) (AWS) when used by paramedics to intubate the trachea, and to evaluate whether their performance was influenced by previous clinical experience with the Macintosh laryngoscope (ML).
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