Equipment Availability for Airway Management at Anesthesia Departments in Austria

 

 

Wolfgang Puchner, MD,¹ Klaus Krasser, MD,² Schirin M. Missaghi, MD,² and Ernst Zadrobilek, MD³

 

¹Staff Anesthetist and Intensive Care Physician, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hospital of the City of Linz, Linz, Austria.

²Staff Anesthetist and Intensive Care Physician, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Empress Elisabeth Hospital of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

³Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Chairman of the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management and Director of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Empress Elisabeth Hospital of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

 

Address correspondence and comments to Ernst Zadrobilek.

 

Received from the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management, Vienna, Austria.

 

Statements

Supported solely by the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management.

 

Acknowledgements

The authors of this study thank all clinical directors of the Austrian anesthesia departments who gave their time and energy to complete the questionnaires.

 

Key Words

Airway management: survey questionnaire.

Equipment availability: difficult airway cart.

 

Published: December 28, 2007.

 

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The correct citation of this survey questionnaire for reference is:

Puchner W, Krasser K, Missaghi SM, Zadrobilek E. Equipment availability for airway management at anesthesia departments in Austria. Internet Journal of Airway Management 4, 2006-2007.
Available from URL: http://www.adair.at/ijam/volume04/surveyquestionnaire03/default.htm
Date accessed: month day, year.

 

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Last updated: December 28, 2007.

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Abstract

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