Tracheal intubation: Improving first pass success with smart material solutions

The First Shot Is Often the Best Shot: First-Pass Intubation Success in Emergency Airway Management.

The importance of first pass success when performing orotracheal intubation in the emergency department.

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to determine the association of first pass success with the incidence of adverse events (AEs) during emergency department (ED) intubations. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected continuous quality improvement data based on orotracheal intubations performed in an academic ED over a 4-year period. Following each intubation, th...

Retrospective analysis of etomidate versus ketamine for first-pass intubation success in an academic emergency department.

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to compare first-pass intubation success between patients who received etomidate versus ketamine for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in the emergency department (ED). METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data recorded in a quality improvement database between July 1, 2007, and December 31, 2012. The study was conducted...

Optimising tracheal intubation success rate using the Airtraq laryngoscope.

In this study we have used a video-recording, retrospective analysis technique to evaluate the influence of the Airtraq laryngoscope manipulations and the resulting changes in position of the glottic opening and inter-arytenoids cleft, on the success rate of tracheal intubation. The video recordings of the internal views of 109 tracheal intubation attempts, in 50 anaesthetised patients were ana...

Tracheal rupture after tracheal intubation.

We report a case of tracheal rupture in an 84-yr-old patient after tracheal intubation. The aetiology and treatment are discussed and the recent literature is reviewed.