The Airway Arms Race: Are We Intubating to Impress Or to Save?
Airway success isn’t about complexity, it’s about appropriateness. Here’s why EMS must rethink intubation culture.
Airway success isn’t about complexity, it’s about appropriateness. Here’s why EMS must rethink intubation culture.
Prehospital airway success requires optimizing ventilation, oxygenation, and perfusion before intubation to prevent hypoxia and cardiac arrest.
This is a case review involving a 25-year-old male patient presenting to EMS with respiratory failure secondary to status asthmaticus.
When intubating a patient, it is important the EMS provider regulates his or her own breathing.
A study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that the use of a video laryngoscope increased the success of intubation on the first attempt.
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