[Obtaining informed consent in the training of endotracheal intubation by emergency medical technicians].
BACKGROUND
There are some problems in the training of endotracheal intubation enforced for the emergency medical technicians. It is important to obtain the informed consent from preoperative patients which is difficult, and time is spent. In addition, patients sometimes refuse in spite of full explanation about this training.


METHODS
We examined the situation where we can obtain the informed consent and what were the reasons the patient refuse this training.


RESULTS
The refusal rate was 22.5% and women of their 50's to 60's of ages tended to decline more. And there seemed to be difference in each department slightly. The reasons of the patients who refused the informed consent were an anxiety to the training of endotracheal intubation and unwilling to be sacrificed for that. These reasons comprised about 66%.


CONCLUSIONS
We could not find the important point to obtain more informed consent. But it was thought that we should know these results to obtain consent more effectively from now.
Kaneda
Toru
T
Department of Anesthesiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara 259-1193.
Nishiyama
Jun-ichi
J
Suzuki
Toshiyasu
T
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D004634:Emergency Medical Technicians / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D055815:Young Adult