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. 2020 May 21;3:75. doi: 10.1038/s41746-020-0284-9

Table 2.

Averaged results for the different criteria of the Emergency Cricothyroidotomy Performance scores for the Overall Population and both the experience-based subgroups.

Emergency cricothyroidotomy procedure evaluation form criteria Overall Population
n = 19
Low First Responder Experience
n = 16
Low Cricothyroidotomy Experience
n = 12
STARa,b Audioa,b P values STARa,b Audioa,b P values STARa,b Audioa,b P values
ECP-1 3.58 (0.61) 3.26 (0.87) 0.24 3.50 (0.63) 3.13 (0.89) 0.56 3.33 (0.65) 3.00 (0.95) 0.42
ECP-2 3.42 (0.77) 3.11 (1.10) 0.26 3.31 (0.79) 2.94 (1.12) 0.70 3.25 (0.87) 2.83 (1.27) 0.42
ECP-3 2.89 (0.94) 2.84 (1.01) 0.76 2.81 (0.91) 2.63 (0.96) 0.79 2.50 (0.90) 2.58 (1.00) 0.90
ECP-4 2.74 (1.28) 2.53 (1.58) 0.52 3.00 (0.89) 2.25 (1.57) 0.52 2.50 (1.17) 2.42 (1.44) 0.78
ECP-5 3.42 (0.61) 3.05 (0.91) 0.11 3.31 (0.60) 2.88 (0.89) 0.83 3.33 (0.65) 2.92 (0.79) 0.15
ECP-6 3.79 (0.92) 3.37 (1.50) 0.30 3.75 (1.00) 3.25 (1.61) 0.55 3.67 (1.15) 3.00 (1.81) 0.27
ECP-7 3.89 (0.46) 3.63 (1.01) 0.29 3.88 (0.50) 3.56 (1.09) 0.53 3.83 (0.58) 3.50 (1.24) 0.46
ECP-8 3.58 (0.61) 2.74 (1.48) 0.05* 3.56 (0.63) 2.63 (1.54) 0.84 3.42 (0.67) 2.50 (1.45) 0.13
ECP-9 3.53 (0.51) 2.68 (1.25) 0.02* 3.44 (0.51) 2.50 (1.26) 0.85 3.42 (0.51) 2.25 (1.29) 0.06
ECP-10 3.00 (0.82) 2.74 (1.05) 0.24 2.94 (0.85) 2.56 (1.03) 0.36 2.75 (0.75) 2.33 (0.98) 0.21

aMean (standard deviation).

b1–5 score.

P values with an asterisk (*) represent a significant difference between the telementoring conditions (p ≤ 0.05).