A conservative strategy of withholding intubation is associated with clinical benefit in comatose patients with acute poisoning, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in the Journal of the ...

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

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A multicenter, randomized trial is planned to assess ketamine vs. etomidate in patients requiring intubation.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – The sickest COVID patients sometimes need to rely on mechanical ventilation to breathe. For those on the hospital frontlines, intubating a patient can be risky.

Education using a video system mounted into a traditional Macintosh blade improved intubation skills in medical students, according to a study published in the June 2011 issue of Anesthesia & ...

Intubation during critical care transport is associated with a high incidence of hemodynamic collapse, including life-threatening situations. The pre-intubation shock index predicts risk. Researchers ...

Concerns about safety, competing priorities and uncooperative patients were among the barriers identified by critical care nurses for not mobilizing intubated patients receiving mechanical ventilation ...

Patients with excited delirium who are combative, aggressive or agitated before being transported to the hospital or in an emergency department setting require immediate treatment for their safety and ...

IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IVOS Medical, Inc., a startup medical device company specializing in airway management, today announced the development of its BOSS G4™, an economical ...

As emergency medicine has emerged as a distinct medical discipline, there has been a shift in responsibility for a key task in emergency departments: managing emergency airways to help patients get ...