Human and equipment resources for difficult airway management, airway education programs, and capnometry use in Japanese emergency departments: a nationwide cross-sectional study

Table 1 Demographic data of the Japanese emergency departments (EDs) that responded to the survey^a

Basic information	Median (inter-quartile range)
Hospital beds	507 (390–684)
Annual ED visits by ambulance	4044 (2838–5728)
ED type	N (%)
By funding institute (N = 324)
Academic^b	79 (24.4)
Community	245 (75.6)
By volume (N = 319)^c
High-volume^d	80 (25.1)
Other	239 (74.9)
By management level (N = 324)
Tertiary^e	184 (56.8)
Secondary or primary	140 (43.2)
By location (N = 324)
Urban^f	117 (36.1)
Suburban or rural	207 (63.9)
By specialty (N = 324)
Pediatric^g	8 (2.5)
Other	316 (97.5)

^aBased on the replies of 324 of the 530 EDs queried
^bDefined as EDs in university-affiliated hospitals
^cThere were five missing data
^dDefined as EDs in the upper quartile of annual ambulance visits (> 5728)
^eDefined as EDs in referral medical centers of regional emergency medical control that are certified by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
^fDefined using the census grouping criteria by the Statistics Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
^gDefined as EDs with a referral resource for critically ill children for communities in nearby regions that are certified by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

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