Hi and welcome back to the podcast. I'm Simon Lang.

This podcast is the first of a new set of podcasts we're going to be bringing you for 2016.

So at the end of last year we posted you a questionnaire to get some feedback on how you thought the podcast was

if there's anything you'd like to change about it and if there's anything you'd like to add in.

One of the things that got some really positive feedback was the idea of turning

our EM Critical Care Papers of the Week into a monthly podcast and giving you a roundup of those

papers that have caught our eye and a bit of a summary of what those papers are meant for our practice.

So this is the first of those series and I would be really grateful for your feedback at the end of the podcast.

Maybe if you go and leave a rating on iTunes or just send us a tweet or comment on the webpage.

So five papers to go through.

Make sure you go and check them out yourselves as well afterwards.

But let's start off with the first.

So this paper is from resuscitation and it was entitled

Defining the Learning Curve for Endotracheal Intubation using direct laryngoscopy, a systematic review.

And the lead author was Bui. So this is a really relevant paper to many specialties, which significantly involve emergency medicine,

as you might expect, and pre-hospital emergency medicine.

So when you're considering airway management, which we've talked about a lot in the podcast over the last few months,

you need to get experience in endotracheal intubation in order to get competent and

confident in performing the procedure. In hospitals, the movement has been away from endotracheal

tubes in theatre to much more usage of the laryngeal mask. Therefore gaining experience of endotracheal

intubation is actually really difficult and it becomes quite competitive to get

that experience for intubations to make sure you're either gaining that

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