Table 3 Qualification of the physician on scene relative to intubation problems
From: Difficult intubation and outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a registry-based analysis
Difficult endotracheal intubation | Impossible endotracheal intubation | Normal endotracheal intubation (control group) | |
|---|---|---|---|
n | 510 | 147 | 7855 |
qualification | |||
- resident physicians | 224 (45.3 %) | 61 (45.9 %) | 3015 (41.2 %) |
- Board-certified physicians | 270 (54.7 %) | 72 (54.1 %) | 4308 (58.8 %) |
- unkown | 16 | 14 | 532 |
field | |||
- anesthetists | 271 (55.0 %) | 74 (55.2 %) | 4829 (66.1 %) |
- internists | 129 (26.2 %) | 36 (26.9 %) | 1428 (19.5 %) |
- surgeons | 61 (12.4 %) | 17 (12.7 %) | 701 (9.6 %) |
- other specialties | 32 (6.5 %) | 7 (5.2 %) | 350 (4.8 %) |
- unkown | 17 | 13 | 547 |