Quality and safety in prehospital airway management – retrospective analysis of 18,000 cases from an air rescue database in Germany

Abstract Background Prehospital airway management remains crucial with regard to the quality and safety of emergency medical service (EMS) systems worldwide. In 2007, the benchmark study by Timmermann et al. hit the German EMS community hard by revealing a significant rate of undetected oesophageal...

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Published in:	BMC Emergency Medicine
Main Authors:	Ulf Lorenzen, Hartwig Marung, Christine Eimer, Andrea Köser, Stephan Seewald, Marcus Rudolph, Florian Reifferscheid
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2024-09-01
Subjects:	Airway management Adverse events Emergency medical service (EMS) Patient Safety Air Rescue Difficult Airway
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-024-01075-x

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