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Table 2 Percentage of EMS-physicians who reports having experienced difficult or impossible prehospital endotracheal intubation (PHETI) in different patient categories

From: EMS-physicians' self reported airway management training and expertise; a descriptive study from the Central Region of Denmark

  

Number (%)

Difficult PHETI in

Patient in cardiac arrest

19/53 (35,8)

 

Trauma patient

18/53 (33,9)

 

Patient with respiratory failure

5/53 (9.4)

 

Child

3/53 (5,7)

 

Other types of patients

2/53 (3,8)

Impossible PHETI in

Patient in cardiac arrest

10/53 (18,9)

 

Trauma patient

5/53 (9,4)

 

Patient with respiratory failure

1/53 (1,9)

 

Child

1/53 (1,9)

 

Other types of patients

1/53 (1,9) *

  1. * Patient with epiglotitis