title: [Obtaining informed consent in the training of endotracheal intubation by emergency medical technicians].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara 259-1193.
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaneda
authors.forename: Jun-ichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nishiyama
authors.forename: Toshiyasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: 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