title: [Fibreoptic clinical training in anaesthesia. Course design and results based on a self-assessment survey].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Fibreoptic intubation is the technique of choice for resolving complications related to a difficult airway. Our aim was to determine whether a clinical-practice-based, individualized course provides sufficient training and confidence to allow anaesthetists to routinely practice fibreoptic intubation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Our hospital developed a clinical-practice-based, individualized course on fibreoptic intubation in general anaesthesia that provided practice in sedated spontaneously breathing patients and insertion through supraglottic devices. From 2005 to 2009, we e-mailed participants for response to an anonymous online self-assessment survey. We asked participants about the training outcomes and their overall degree of satisfaction.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy-seven participants were sent the questionnaire six months after the course and 61% responded. All respondents considered themselves skilled in handling the bronchoscope at the end of the course and 97% used it in their routine practice in patients with difficult airways.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results suggest a high success rate can be expected from individually tailored fibreoptic intubation courses that supplement theory and mannequin experience with clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Terapia del Dolor, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, España. erivas@clinic.ub.es
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rivas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ubré
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martínez-Pallí
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Valero
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beltran
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: López
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Balust
mesh_terms: D058109:Airway Management / Q000379:methods*; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education*; D020680:Bronchoscopes; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D016292:Procedural Sedation; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004521:Educational Measurement; D034742:Electronic Mail; D004867:Equipment Design; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008348:Manikins; D012647:Self-Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires