Crike rate 1 in 500 in Scottish ED
A review of over 2500 intubation attempts in the emergency department1, (of which 1671 were rapid sequence intubation attempts) revealed […]
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RSI complications increase with intubation difficulty
A substudy of a large randomised controlled trial comparing etomidate with ketamine for RSI in the pre-hospital environment, emergency department, […]
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Intubation checklist
Perhaps you’ve read the blog post and heard the podcast about the excellent NAP4 airway audit…..now you can start putting […]
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Remifentanil for awake intubation
Awake fibreopic intubation (AFOI) is indicated in a subgroup of critically ill patients in whom RSI is contraindicated due to […]
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Pre-hospital Airtraq use often failed
The Airtraq seems nifty when you try it on a manikin, but until now the question of whether it would […]
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Video laryngoscope successes and failures
With a difficult airway, video laryngoscopes can get you out of a hole – or rather into one. However they’re […]
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Anaesthesia's dirty laundry – let's all learn from it
NAP4 is here! Is that good? Yes. Why? Because it’s the long awaited 4th National Audit Project of the Royal […]
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Longer apnoea time with roc in the obese too
Suxamethonium increases muscle oxygen consumption as a result of skeletal muscle fasciculation. In a comparison between sux and rocuronium in […]
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Kids tracheal tubes – formulas galore
An ultrasound study of paediatric airways showed sonographic measurement to be a better predictor of tracheal tube size (using a […]
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Two hands on the jaw for mask ventilation
Elective surgery patients were anaesthetised with propofol with or without fentanyl and had an oropharyngeal airway placed. They were ventilated […]