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Time to complete needle cricothyrotomy in two different emergency airway devices performed by Dutch paramedics

The Cricath® is a recently developed flexible 2mm cricothyrotomy catheter device. Our objective is to compare the duration of the procedure utilizing the Cricath® compared with the more frequently used QuicktrachTM. The second outcome is the complication rate of the Cricath®compared with the QuicktrachTM.