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I would consider intubation of the neonate(<28 days old) to be a very stressful event. This is not only because the size of the patient makes it tec...

Rapid sequence intubation can be associated with peri or post intubation hypotension and in a small group of patients, cardiac arrest. In the lectur...

Post Intubation hypotension has been linked to induction agents, although the studies for this are few. It is moreso related to age and Shock Index....

Dr Steve Pincus discusses pressure-contolled ventilation.

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I recently had the pleasure of speaking to Dr Ben McKenzie, Emergency Physician and researcher into anaphylaxis. Ben has developed the AMAX 4 algor...

Advanced airway is seen as a definitive and reliable means of establishing protected ventilation and oxygenation. It has been shown to improve ROSC...

This is a review of the Pragmatic Trial Examining Oxygenation Prior to Intubation (PREOXI) trial(1). (12 minute read)

The aim of this trial was to ...

AIRWAY PEARLS

• Consider every case a difficult Intubation due to effects on anatomy and physiology
• Normal airway techniques may not be effective
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Emergency airway management and specifically intubation can be associated with significant adverse events, related to the airway itself (failed intu...

Cardiac arrest has a poor survival rate. In this study Okubo et al(1) tried to address the question of adrenaline or airway first, in out of hospital ...

The End tidal CO2 (ETCO2), is measured at the end of expiration and used to confirm that the patient is being ventilated and during cardiac arrest. It...