Bite-Sized Basics: Urgent Endotracheal Intubation

The Urgent Endotracheal Intubation (UEI) describes the primary intubation scenario that occurs in the ED where intubation must proceed in a semi-rapid or rapid fashion due to the patient’s clinical state.

We discuss the Rapid Sequence Intubation, the mainstay of the UEI with the longest history and firmest evidence base.

In Beyond the Basics we look at alternatives to RSI including:

– Modified RSI

– Rapid Sequence Airway (RSA)

– Delayed Sequence Intubation (DSI)

– Awake Intubation

– Inevitable Surgical Airway

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The End of Therapeutic Hypothermia?  

GAME CHANGER!

HOT OF THE PRESS: this new article in NEJM, the Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) trial, that I came across initially courtesy of @CHsu1012 (and then from just about every FOAM resource on the planet due to the significance of these findings) found no benefit of cooling to 33 degrees v 36 degrees. That’s right – no benefit!

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