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Table 7 Airway management teaching programs 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

Airway management teaching programb

N (%)

Anesthesiology rotation

125 (38.6)

Surgical airway training using a simulator, an animal model, a cadaver, etc.

99 (30.6)

DAM simulation training

56 (17.3)

Didactic lecture

47 (14.5)

Other program

36 (11.1)

  1. DAM difficult airway management
  2. aBased on the replies of 324 of the 530 EDs queried
  3. bEDs may have more than one airway management teaching program