Table 1 Differences in tracheal intubation procedure using the Airway Scope and Macintosh laryngoscope by non‐anaesthesia residents.
Airway Scope | Macintosh laryngoscope | |
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Time to intubation (s) | 41 (19)* | 69 (41)* |
Attempts until successful intubation (1/2/3 times) | 97/3/0† | 69/27/4† |
Erroneous intubation of the oesophagus | 0‡ | 8‡ |
*Mean (SD), p<0.001 (Student's t test).
†Number of cases, p<0.001 (Mann–Whitney U test).
‡Number of cases, p<0.05 (Yates' corrected χ2 test).