Irie Gellis survived months of intubation, four open-heart surgeries, 19 chest tubes, eight catheterization procedures and ...

A Connecticut couple is suing Yale New Haven Hospital for its alleged failures to properly diagnose and treat a 1-year-old boy during an emergency room visit, leading to his ...

The cause of death for 2-year-old Er’mias Mitchell is listed as hypoxic cardiac arrest after intubation. The manner of death ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA 3 Division of Allergy, ...

Intubation is a procedure that's used when you can't breathe on your own. Your doctor puts a tube down your throat and into your windpipe to make it easier to get air into and out of your lungs. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Predicting prehospital intubation via the Intub-8 machine learning model was estimated to prevent 170 deaths a ...

Terminal ileum intubation is considered the completion step of colonoscopy and is usually performed to assess the ileum. The histological examination of the ileal mucosa, which is acquired during ...

Objectives Positioning during endotracheal intubation (ETI) is critical to ensure its success. We aimed to determine if the ramping position improved laryngeal exposure and first attempt success at ...

For critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation, observational studies suggest that the use of etomidate to induce anesthesia may increase the risk of death. Whether the use of ketamine ...

Etomidate, the most common anesthesia induction agent for emergency tracheal intubation, causes adrenal suppression and can lead to corticosteroid insufficiency. In a large trial, in-hospital death ...

Maintaining an open airway is a critical priority in emergency medicine. Without the flow of oxygen, other emergency interventions can become ineffective at saving the patient’s life. However, ...