Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Feb 2013
Incidence of transient hypoxia during pre-hospital rapid sequence intubation by anaesthesiologists.
Pre-hospital tracheal intubation (TI) is an important but difficult procedure with the potential to produce hypoxaemia. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of desaturation episodes during out-of-hospital rapid sequence induction (RSI) and TI by the medical team of a German Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS). ⋯ The incidence of episodes of desaturation during pre-hospital RSI/TI at HEMS Ulm is relatively low, and the duration of such episodes is short.