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Table 5 Portable storage unit (DAM cart) and its contents available at the responding Japanese emergency departments (EDs)a

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

Item

N (%)

Portable storage unit (DAM cart)

161 (49.7)

Contents of the DAM cart

161

 Stylet

145 (90.1)

 Direct laryngoscope blades in various designs and sizes

142 (88.2)

 Tracheal tubes in assorted sizes

135 (83.9)

 Magill forceps

129 (80.1)

 Airway (oral/nasal)

127 (78.9)

 Bag valve mask

122 (75.8)

 Rigid video laryngoscope

107 (66.5)

 Surgical airway device

100 (62.1)

 SGA

68 (42.2)

 Gum elastic bougie

67 (41.6)

 Capnometry

51 (31.7)

 Yankauer suction tip

39 (24.2)

 Sugammadex

8 (5.0)

 Other devices

8 (5.0)

  1. DAM difficult airway management, SGA supraglottic airway device
  2. aBased on the replies of 324 of the 530 EDs queried