Table 3.

Success rates of various techniques used for FONA. FONA, front-of-neck access.

Study	Number of patients	Success rate documented in manuscript (%)
Needle technique
Bulger and colleagues12	8	75.0
Nakayama and colleagues13	2	0.0
Shapey and colleagues14	4	50.0
Tollefsen and colleagues15	1	100.0
Warner and colleagues16	4	25.0
Surgical technique
Adams and colleagues17	17	76.5
Archan and colleagues18	1	100.0
Aziz and colleagues19	72	97.2
Bair and colleagues20	22	100.0
Boyle and colleagues21	69	98.6
Bulger and colleagues12	22	100.0
Cook and colleagues22	68	98.5
Germann and colleagues23	4	100.0
High and colleagues24	7	100.0
Jacobson and colleagues25	50	94.0
Lairet and colleagues26	15	86.7
Leibovici and colleagues27	16	93.8
Ljungqvist and colleagues28	2	100.0
Lockey and colleagues29	88	100.0
Mabry and colleagues30	3	100.0
Mabry and colleagues31	3	100.0
Metzger and colleagues32	1	100.0
Morris and colleagues33	2	100.0
Nugent and colleagues34	56	96.4
Paix and colleagues35	14	100.0
Ramgopal and colleagues36	2	100.0
Richards and colleagues37	1	100.0
Robinson and colleagues38	8	62.5
Rupprecht and colleagues39	1	100.0
Salvino and colleagues40	10	100.0
Schauer and colleagues41	2	100.0
Shapey and colleagues14	12	100.0
Soti and colleagues42	2	100.0
Thomas and colleagues43	10	90.0
Tollefsen and colleagues15	1	100.0
Warner and colleagues16	11	91.0
Wharton and Bennett44	1	100.0
Xeropotamos and colleagues45	11	100.0
Tracheostomy kit (including those using Seldinger technique)
Beit Ner and colleagues46	147	88.0
Combes and colleagues47	1	100.0
Germann and colleagues23	2	100.0
High and colleagues24	6	83.3
Katzenell and colleagues48	46	93.5
Leibovici and colleagues27	13	84.6
Schauer and colleagues41	2	0.0
Sudrial and colleagues49	1	100.0
Timmerman and colleagues50	1	100.0