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Table 4 Overall analysis for airway patency in 566 cases (not assigned: reported, but not in relation to burial time)

From: Prevalence of airway patency and air pocket in critically buried avalanche victims - a scoping review

 

Obstructed

Patent

Unknown

Burial time

Short < 35 min (n = 106, 19%)

15 (14%)

43 (41%)

48 (45%)

Long ≥ 35 min (n = 374, 66%)

46 (12%)

106 (29%)

222 (59%)

Unknown (n = 68, 12%)

2 (3%)

52 (77%)

14 (20%)

Not assigned (n = 18, 3%)

6 (33%)

12 (67%)

0

Total (n = 566)

69 (12%)

213 (38%)

284 (50%)