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Table 3 Overview and structural description of current surveys related to IAH and ACS

From: Recognition and management of abdominal compartment syndrome among German anesthetists and surgeons: a national survey

Authors

Reference

Country

Year a

Questionnaires (returned/sent)

Response rate

Communication channel

Specialty of participitants

Level of medical care

Mayberry et al.

[9]

USA

1999/1997

292/473

62%

Mail

Trauma surgeons

85% Teaching hospitals

Kirkpatrick et al.

[10]

Canada

2005/2005

86/102

84%

Mail and email

Trauma surgeons

 

Ravishankar and Hunter

[4]

UK

2005/NA

137/207

66%

Mail

Intensivists

 

Nagappan et al.

[14]

Australasia

2005/2004

36/40

90%

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ICU registrars

72% High-level ICU

        

10% Medium-level ICU

        

3% Low-level ICU

Tiwari et al.

[2]

UK

2006/2004

127/222

57%

Mail

Intensivists

25% Teaching hospitals

        

75% District hospitals

Kimball et al.

[15]

USA

2006/2001

1622/4538

36%

Mail

35% Surgeons

 
       

32% Internists

 
       

18% Pediatricians

 
       

10% Anesthetics

 
       

1% Emergency doctors

 

De Laet et al.

[12]

Belgium

2007/2005

41/689

6%

Email

Surgeons

73% Teaching hospitals

        

27% District hospitals

Ejike et al.

[13]

60% America

2010/2006

517/1107

47%

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60% Pediatric nurses

81% Tertiary care hospitals

  

26% Europe

    

30% Pediatric intensivists

14% Community hospitals

  

12% Australasia

    

4% General pediatricians

2% Private practise

       

6% Other pediatric health care providers

1% Clinics

        

2% Others

Zhou et al.

[16]

China

2011/2010

108/141

77%

Mail

39% Emergency doctor

100% Tertiary care hospitals

       

36% Internists

 
       

19% Surgeons

 
       

6% Anesthetics

 

Kaussen et al.

 

Germany

2012b/2006

113/222

51%

Mail

52% Surgeons

Larger hospitals with > 450 patient beds

       

48% Anesthetics

 

Malbrain et al.

[11]

58% America

2012/2007

2244/8081

28%

Contacting via email/online-questionnaire

37% ICU physicians

 
  

32% Europe

    

23% Surgeons

 
  

9% Australasia

    

21% Anesthetics

 
  

1% Africa

    

8% Internists

 
       

6% Pediatricians

 
       

2% Emergency physicians

 
       

1% Cardiologists

 
       

2% Others

 

Newcombe et al.

[38]

97% USA

2012/2010

433/691

 

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Pediatric nurses

> 60% Tertiary care hospitals

        

< 30% Community hospitals

        

< 10% Others

  1. Australasia, Australia and Asia; ICU, intensive care unit. aContains 2 annual details: 1st, year of publication; 2nd, year of conduction of underlying study/survey. bUnpublished work.