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 ...

Etomidate, the most common anesthesia induction agent for emergency tracheal intubation, causes adrenal suppression and can lead to corticosteroid insufficiency. In a large trial, in-hospital death ...

Among critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation, ketamine for anesthesia did not result in a significantly lower incidence of in-hospital death by day 28 compared with etomidate. In ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the ketamine group, 28.1% died in the hospital by day 28 vs. 29.1% in the etomidate group. More patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Predicting prehospital intubation via the Intub-8 machine learning model was estimated to prevent 170 deaths a ...

For tracheal intubation anesthesia in critically ill patients, ketamine didn't improve survival compared with etomidate, a pragmatic clinical trial showed. In-hospital death by day 28 occurred in 28.1 ...