Articles: intubation.
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Multicenter Study
Risks to healthcare workers following tracheal intubation of patients with COVID-19: a prospective international multicentre cohort study.
Within 30 days of their first COVID intubation, 10% of anaesthetists reported positive COVID infection.
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Airway management is one of the critically important skills in practicing emergency medicine. However, intubation in the prehospital setting is quite different from those done in controlled environment and still poses significant risks for serious complications. ⋯ Studies have shown that the verification of tube placement utilizing bronchoscopy is an easy and highly reliable methods and this is especially beneficial in the prehospital settings. Although the use of bronchoscopy in prehospital setting currently is somehow limited, this new, rapidly advancing technology and technique is believed to be a game changer in our prehospital intubation/post-intubation practice in the near future.
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Case Reports
BEDSIDE TRANSCERVICAL-TRANSTRACHEAL POST-INTUBATION INJURY REPAIR IN A COVID-19 PATIENT.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread worldwide since December 2019. An acute respiratory distress syndrome develops in a relevant rate of patients, who require hospitalization. ⋯ The management of COVID-19 patients can be challenging due to the risk of disease transmission to caregivers and epidemic spread. We performed a bedside tracheal injury surgical repair, after failure of conservative management, with resolution of pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema and improvement of the patient's conditions.