Citation

Dimitriadis JC, Paoloni R. Anaesthesia 2008; 63(11): 1204-1208.

Affiliation

Emergency medicine registrar, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Comment In:

Anaesthesia 2009;64(4):448-9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05631.x

PMID

19032254

Abstract

Emergency physicians and registrars performed emergency cricothyroidotomy on an artificial airway model using a standard surgical approach and three common commercial products, participants had received no refresher training. The order in which the methods were used was randomised to minimise any learning effect. Three methods (standard surgical, Minitrach II, and Quicktrach) were universally successful in obtaining ventilation within 150 s, whilst the Melker kit had a 26% failure rate and significantly longer median time to ventilation (126 s vs

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