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Audit of advanced airway management in UK Emergency Departments following the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Difficult Airway Society
  1. Louise Davies1,
  2. Jonathan R Benger1,2
  1. 1Emergency Department, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
  2. 2Academic Department of Emergency Care, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Louise Davies, Emergency Department, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK; l-davies{at}doctors.org.uk

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The 4th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and The Difficult Airway Society (NAP4)1 was published in March 2011, and included important recommendations for UK Emergency Departments (EDs). To coincide with the launch of NAP4, we audited current service availability and equipment provision for airway management in UK EDs against the recommendations made in the NAP4 report.2 A questionnaire was emailed to the designated …

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  • Contributors JRB initiated the project and designed and distributed the survey. LD collated and analysed the results and prepared the letter for publication. Both authors contributed to, edited and approved the final manuscript.

  • Competing interests None.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.