Quality and safety in prehospital airway management – retrospective analysis of 18,000 cases from an air rescue database in Germany

Quality and safety in prehospital airway management – retrospective analysis of 18,000 cases from an air rescue database in Germany

Abstract Background Prehospital airway management remains crucial with regard to the quality and safety of emergency medical service (EMS) systems worldwide. In 2007, the benchmark study by Timmermann et al. hit the German EMS community hard by revealing a significant rate of undetected oesophageal...

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Main Authors: Ulf Lorenzen, Hartwig Marung, Christine Eimer, Andrea Köser, Stephan Seewald, Marcus Rudolph, Florian Reifferscheid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-09-01
Series:BMC Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Airway management
Adverse events
Emergency medical service (EMS)
Patient Safety
Air Rescue
Difficult Airway
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-024-01075-x

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-024-01075-x

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