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The intubation topic includes articles, columns and videos about what intubation is and why providers intubate.

The resulting device can help ensure first-pass success even in difficult airways
A Pinnacle exhibitor demonstrates how to capture and maintain an adequate seal and how to switch to manual when ventilating a patient
Louisville Metro EMS Major Chis Lokits joins to discuss the future of paramedic intubation, as well his agency’s part in the DoD’s prehospital airway clinical trial
Firefighters had to use foam to rescue the worker at the Sun City West golf course
A Vanderbilt University Medical Center study compared intubation attempts in over 1,400 patients in hospitals across the nation
Maryland physician describes the current pediatric bed crisis as “far worse than the worst days of the adult critical care bed crunch during COVID”
Check out this incredible footage from video laryngoscopes that captured burned and swollen airways during intubation
Protect patients from over-ventilation and pulmonary injury with a bag-valve-mask that helps regulate rate and volume
The negative association between number of airway attempts and neuro-intact survival following OHCA
How to best manage our high-stress, time-compressed working conditions to control fight-or-flight response
Examining the evidence for managing intubation attempts, PEA and ETCO2 for out of hospital cardiac arrest
Harris County ESD11 Mobile Healthcare developed 10 commandments to set initial expectations while onboarding 200 paramedics
Drs. Antevy, Piehl and Spiro review video of intubation and an external ventricular drain
The position statements summarize recommendations for training, quality management, pediatric considerations and more
A study from Florida Atlantic University found IM ketamine administration increases ED intubation rate 5.75-fold for patients testing positive for cocaine
Flail chest, tension pneumothorax, cardiac tamponade and pulmonary contusion have unique presentations, but all jeopardize vital functions
In this episode, our co-hosts discuss how to use the SALAD method in advanced airway management scenarios, dishing their top tips
In this eBook, learn about optimal patient positioning, securing an airway with facial trauma involvement and the benefits of the bougie in airway management
In this episode, our co-hosts discuss Kelly Grayson’s recent airway management webinar (now available on-demand) and debate the best intubation tools
Airway management guru Kelly Grayson on when and how to escalate to a more invasive and secure airway, and when to elevate care
Use this guide to determine when to activate air EMS and transport to a level 1 burn center
The city of Bellingham will pay $75,000 to the daughter of a man after fire department personnel practiced “tube checks” on the man’s body after his death in an ambulance
Officials said the Crozer Health medics needed to be extricated and one of them was intubated
Prehospital caveats for non-invasive and invasive airway management as we learn more about the pathophysiology of COVID-19
The man’s wife filed a federal lawsuit after 11 fire department employees admitted to performing 15 “tube checks” on his body on the floor of the fire station
The plaintiff alleges medical negligence in the treatment of the man, who has been in a vegetative state since a respiratory episode in 2018
MCHD medical directors discuss three promising treatments for COVID-19, return to work guidance and complications presenting in pediatric patients
Protect EMS providers while preventing the unnecessary depletion of already diminished PPE supplies
A study from King County, Washington, characterizes COVID-19 patients receiving care from EMS