Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Prehospital airway management: the patient needs oxygen! | Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine BioMed Central Commentary Prehospital airway management the patient needs oxygen Harald V Genzwuerker Open Access Address Clinic of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine University Hospital Mannheim Germany Email Harald V Genzwuerker - genzwuerker@ Received 10 July 2008 Accepted 21 July 2008 Published 21 July 2008 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2008 16 3 doi 1757-7241-16-3 This article is available from http content 16 1 3 2008 Genzwuerker licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Commentary The current guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council ERC for advanced cardiac life support recommend that endotracheal intubation should be attempted only if the healthcare provider is properly trained and has adequate ongoing experience with the technique. 1 One would consider anaesthesiologists to be among those who should be able to fulfill these recommendations quite easily. Interestingly Sollid and colleagues 2 found that anaesthesia specialists and trainees who were working as helicopter emergency medical services HEMS physicians felt that they did not perform a sufficient number of annual intubations to maintain this important skill. An evaluation of one rural and two urban ambulance bases showed that the emergency physicians responding to prehospital calls performed one intubation every 2 to 7 months depending on the case load of the ambulance base and the number of shifts worked by the individual physicians 3 . Therefore I wholeheartedly agree with the conclusions reached by Sollid and colleagues that prehospital emergency physicians require improved training methods and .
