A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society examined the outcomes following emergency department intubation among patients 65 years and older. Researchers studied the outcomes ...

Drs Robert Glatter and Ken Milne discuss what the recent RSI trial reveals — and does not reveal — about choosing etomidate ...

An analysis of 7.6 million trauma cases over 7 years showed that 3.7% of patients underwent emergency department (ED) endotracheal intubation (ETI), which was associated with a mortality rate of 10.2% ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After undergoing intubation, 7.4% of patients remembered feeling paralysis. Patients had less awareness of ...

In current clinical care, most critically-ill adults undergoing emergency tracheal intubation receive preoxygenation through an oxygen mask. Administering supplemental oxygen to patients prior to the ...

Intubation in the emergency department is common and can prevent a patient from dying from a reversible condition. While the benefits of such intubation for young and otherwise healthy patients are ...

Holding off on intubation for patients in a coma with suspected acute poisoning safely got them home sooner in the NICO randomized trial. A conservative strategy of withholding intubation had a win ...

Hypoxemia is the most common complication of emergency endotracheal intubation of children, with an incidence of up to 50%. In this randomized trial of children under 16 years, nasal high-flow oxygen ...

Intubation Twenty-four percent of adults aged 65 years who undergo intubation in ED are discharged home. HealthDay News — Of older adults who undergo intubation in the emergency department, 33% die ...

Researchers at CWRU have created a new and novel method DNA amplification they say is the holy grail of DNA testing: one that is both fast and accurate, even when using complex DNA sequences. Gretchen ...

Positive-pressure isolation rooms are used to reduce the risk of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients, but their use is not suitable for patients with Covid-19 owing to the ...

I have been practicing emergency medicine for 30 years. In 1994, I invented an imaging system for teaching intubation, the procedure of inserting breathing tubes. This led me to perform research into ...