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Intubation was attempted with an appropriately sized single-lumen endotracheal tube, usually 7.5 to 8 mm in size. For patients in the direct laryngoscopy group, stylets were used per clinical ...

Topical application of corticosteroids to tracheal tubes to prevent postoperative sore throat in adults undergoing tracheal intubation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. https ...

Tracheal intubation was performed in an ICU in 73.2% of the patients and in an emergency department in 26.8%. In total, 85.9% of the intubations were performed by a resident or a fellow.

In the multicenter, randomized PREOXI trial, Casey and colleagues evaluated 1,301 adults (median age, 61 years) in the ICU (73.2%) or ED (26.8%) undergoing tracheal intubation to determine which ...

A tracheal rupture during endotracheal intubation (where a catheter is placed in the windpipe), is extraordinarily rare, occurring at a rate of only 0.005 percent.

Other international guidelines provide advice on techniques to confirm tracheal intubation, but the current guideline is the first to focus specifically on preventing unrecognized esophageal ...

Is a supraglottic airway device superior to tracheal intubation as the initial advanced airway management strategy in adults with nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?

Nitin Choudhary and his co-authors wrote in “I-Gel as an intubation conduit: Comparison of three different types of endotracheal tubes” that their research showed that the ET tube had the ...

To the Editor: I have read with interest the carefully prepared article by Dr. Benjamin Etsten and Dr. Donald Mahler on "Subglottic Membrane, a Complication of Endotracheal Intubation" that ...