| Characteristic | Overall N = 1,2371 |
Anaesthetics N = 4381 |
Emergency Medicine N = 5311 |
Paramedicine N = 2681 |
p-value2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attempts | 0.2 | ||||
| 1 | 1,079 (87%) | 385 (88%) | 456 (86%) | 238 (89%) | |
| 2 | 125 (10%) | 37 (8.4%) | 65 (12%) | 23 (8.6%) | |
| 3 | 30 (2.4%) | 14 (3.2%) | 9 (1.7%) | 7 (2.6%) | |
| 4 | 3 (0.2%) | 2 (0.5%) | 1 (0.2%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Success | 1,191 (96%) | 425 (97%) | 506 (95%) | 260 (97%) | 0.3 |
| View | |||||
| Grade I | 926 (76%) | 331 (77%) | 394 (75%) | 201 (77%) | |
| Grade II | 227 (19%) | 72 (17%) | 106 (20%) | 49 (19%) | |
| Grade III | 51 (4.2%) | 19 (4.4%) | 21 (4.0%) | 11 (4.2%) | |
| Grade IV | 14 (1.1%) | 8 (1.9%) | 6 (1.1%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Indication | |||||
| Airway compromise | 138 (11%) | 50 (11%) | 62 (12%) | 26 (9.7%) | |
| Cardiac arrest | 140 (11%) | 33 (7.5%) | 41 (7.7%) | 66 (25%) | |
| Clinical course | 33 (2.7%) | 13 (3.0%) | 17 (3.2%) | 3 (1.1%) | |
| Humanitarian | 2 (0.2%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (0.4%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Low GCS | 477 (39%) | 175 (40%) | 218 (41%) | 84 (31%) | |
| Other | 373 (30%) | 139 (32%) | 156 (29%) | 78 (29%) | |
| Respiratory failure | 51 (4.1%) | 19 (4.3%) | 26 (4.9%) | 6 (2.2%) | |
| Unmanageable | 22 (1.8%) | 9 (2.1%) | 9 (1.7%) | 4 (1.5%) | |
| 1 n (%) | |||||
| 2 Fisher’s exact test; Pearson’s Chi-squared test | |||||