ET intubation is an aerosol generating procedure with a high risk of infection for operators. The procedure permits mechanical ventilation in patients with severe respiratory failure, such as many ...

Intubation is a standard procedure that involves passing a tube into a person’s airway. Doctors often perform it before surgery or in emergencies to give medication or help a person breathe. Most ...

Thirty-day mortality of patients with major trauma fell if they received intubation before hospital admission per prediction from a machine learning risk-stratifying model, according to data published ...

Among critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation, hypoxemia increases the risk of cardiac arrest and death. The effect of preoxygenation with noninvasive ventilation, as compared with ...

Neonatal endotracheal intubation often involves more than one attempt, and oxygen desaturation is common. It is unclear whether nasal high-flow therapy, which extends the time to desaturation during ...

In a US study of patients without cardiac arrest who required prehospital intubation, rapid sequence intubation (RSI), involving the use of a sedative and paralytic, was associated with increased odds ...

Intubation is a word that’s been mentioned a lot lately when it comes to discussing patients who are seriously ill with COVID-19. But the procedure isn’t specific to the novel coronavirus; it’s been ...