Associations of obesity with tracheal intubation success on first attempt and adverse events in the emergency department: An analysis of the multicenter prospective observational study in Japan

Hiromasa Yakushiji; Tadahiro Goto; Wataru Shirasaka; Yusuke Hagiwara; Hiroko Watase; Hiroshi Okamoto; Kohei Hasegawa; on behalf of the Japanese Emergency Medicine Network investigators

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195938

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Associations of obesity with tracheal intubation success on first attempt and adverse events in the emergency department: An analysis of the multicenter prospective observational study in Japan

Hiromasa Yakushiji ,

Roles Writing – original draft

* E-mail: dr.hero.yumi@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kishiwada Tokushukai Hospital, Osaka, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6270-1599

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Tadahiro Goto,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Wataru Shirasaka,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kishiwada Tokushukai Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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Yusuke Hagiwara,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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Hiroko Watase,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Hiroshi Okamoto,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Center for Clinical Epidemiology, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan
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Kohei Hasegawa,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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on behalf of the Japanese Emergency Medicine Network investigators

¶Collaborators of the Japanese Emergency Medicine Network investigators are provided in the Acknowledgments section.
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Associations of obesity with tracheal intubation success on first attempt and adverse events in the emergency department: An analysis of the multicenter prospective observational study in Japan

Hiromasa Yakushiji,
Tadahiro Goto,
Wataru Shirasaka,
Yusuke Hagiwara,
Hiroko Watase,
Hiroshi Okamoto,
Kohei Hasegawa,
on behalf of the Japanese Emergency Medicine Network investigators

Published: April 19, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195938

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