Soiled Airway Tracheal Intubation and the Effectiveness of Decontamination by Paramedics

The training session will be delivered, and will take around 45 minutes to complete, including time for participant practice. The training intervention will adopt the Advanced Life Support Group/Resuscitation Council 4-stage approach of skills teaching, and is comprised of: A real-time demonstration of the SALAD technique by the researcher; A repeated demonstration with an explanation of the rationale of the steps taken when performing SALAD (not real-time); Another demonstration of the SALAD technique conducted by the researcher, but guided by one of the participants; An attempt by the same participant who guided the researcher in the previous step, followed by a practice attempt by the other participants.