Articles: intubation.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jun 2024
Comparative Study Observational StudyFirst-Attempt Success Between Anatomically and Physiologically Difficult Airways in the National Emergency Airway Registry.
In the emergency department (ED), certain anatomical and physiological airway characteristics may predispose patients to tracheal intubation complications and poor outcomes. We hypothesized that both anatomically difficult airways (ADAs) and physiologically difficult airways (PDAs) would have lower first-attempt success than airways with neither in a cohort of ED intubations. ⋯ Compared to no difficult airway characteristics, ADAs were inversely associated with first-attempt success, while PDAs were not. Both ADAs and PDAs, as well as their interaction, were inversely associated with first-attempt success without adverse events.
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Emerg Med Australas · Jun 2024
Early experience in use of videolaryngoscopy by a neonatal pre-hospital and retrieval service.
To describe initial experience with use of the Glidescope Go videolaryngoscope by an Australian neonatal pre-hospital and retrieval service. ⋯ On initial review of this practice change, videolaryngoscopy allows neonatal tracheal intubation with a comparable success rate to direct laryngoscopy in a pre-hospital and retrieval setting.