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Table 4 Comparative data of prehospital intubation by physician from the present and previous studies

From: Intubation during a medevac flight: safety and effect on total prehospital time in the helicopter emergency medical service system

 

Helm M, et al. [7] (2013)

Sunde GA, et al. [11] (2015)

Piegeler T, et al. [12] (2016)

Caruana E, et al. [13] (2015)

Kamiutsuri K, et al. [14] (2013)

This study (2020)

Number

150

2144

988

1251

742

376

Age, y

40 (21–61)a

53 (0–95)a

49.7 (25.7–65.9)a b

60.3 (18.6)d

CA 61.8 (20.9)d

74 (60–82)e

  

52.7 (34.5–66.5) a c

 

Non CA 50.7 (20.4)d

 

Medical (%)

22.0

55.0

NA

NA

68% (CA), 13.6% (Non-CA)

56.4

Trauma (%)

78.0

44.0

NA

NA

32% (CA), 86.4% (Non-CA)

27.7

CA (%)

0.0

42.0

46.4

57.4

61.3

44.0

Success rate (%)

 Total

100.0

98.7

99.5

99.5

99.1

97.9

 First pass

92.0

85.5

96.4

63.8

NA

91.8

 Second or additional passes

8.0

13.2

3.1

35.7

NA

7.7

Hypoxia, excluding CA (%)

12.0

2.1

NA

10.0

NA

3.7

Hypotension, excluding CA (%)

NA

3.0

NA

1.3

NA

5.2

  1. Abbreviations: CA Cardiac arrest, IQR Interquartile range. a median (range) b first attempt success c two or more attempts success d mean (SD) e median (IQR)