Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After undergoing intubation, 7.4% of patients remembered feeling paralysis. Patients had less awareness of ...

Intubation in the emergency department is common and can prevent a patient from dying from a reversible condition. While the benefits of such intubation for young and otherwise healthy patients are ...

Researchers at CWRU have created a new and novel method DNA amplification they say is the holy grail of DNA testing: one that is both fast and accurate, even when using complex DNA sequences. Gretchen ...

Holding off on intubation for patients in a coma with suspected acute poisoning safely got them home sooner in the NICO randomized trial. A conservative strategy of withholding intubation had a win ...

Hypoxemia is the most common complication of emergency endotracheal intubation of children, with an incidence of up to 50%. In this randomized trial of children under 16 years, nasal high-flow oxygen ...

A large number of older patients either die in hospital or are discharged directly to a nursing home following intubation in the emergency department, a major US study has revealed. Researchers noted ...

Intubation Twenty-four percent of adults aged 65 years who undergo intubation in ED are discharged home. HealthDay News — Of older adults who undergo intubation in the emergency department, 33% die ...

In critically ill patients, video laryngoscopy offers superior glottic visualization, reduces the incidence of esophageal intubation, and improves the first-attempt success rate of emergency tracheal ...

When someone stops breathing, the clock starts ticking. First responders often need to get air into the lungs fast, and one of the most reliable ways is to slide a tube into the windpipe. This process ...

Positive-pressure isolation rooms are used to reduce the risk of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients, but their use is not suitable for patients with Covid-19 owing to the ...

As emergency responders, we are tasked with executing lifesaving maneuvers in high-stress situations. For example, every one of us has been trained to know the traditional ABC sequence of trauma ...