title: [Difficult airway management: assessment of knowledge and experience in anaesthesiology residents].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Assessment of knowledge and experience in anaesthesiology residents on alternative techniques for difficult airway management.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive study using an anonymous electronic questionnaire, with 20 multiple-choice questions of 59 4th- and 5th-year residents in anaesthesiology of Amiens, Rouen and Caen University Hospitals (France).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fourty-three (73%) answered to the questionnaire. Thirteen residents (30%) admitted to know last expert conference of the French Anaesthesiology Society partially, 19 (44%) didn't train on mannequin or simulator. Twelve residents (28%) admitted to be insufficient trained to set up a Fastrach in an emergency context, and 39 (91%) to set up a transtracheal oxygenation technique. The rates of residents reaching the educational objectives on patients were 4% for the Fastrach, 21% for fiberoptic intubation, 12% for cricothyroidotomy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Four years after the expert conference of the French Anaesthesiology Society, the educational objectives are not achieved during the resident training, both on mannequins or patients.
authors: Pôle d'anesthésie-réanimation médecine d'urgence, CHU d'Amiens, place Victor-Pauchet, 80054 Amiens cedex, France.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Duwat
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Hubert
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Deransy
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Dupont
mesh_terms: D058109:Airway Management / Q000379:methods*; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education*; D003413:Cricoid Cartilage / Q000601:surgery; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000193:education; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D008348:Manikins; D055096:Optical Devices; D012138:Respiratory Therapy / Q000193:education; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013957:Thyroid Cartilage / Q000601:surgery; D014140:Tracheotomy / Q000193:education