Overall, around 45% of all patients admitted to intensive care need to be intubated, and it is estimated that between 5% and 15% of COVID-19 cases require intensive care surveillance and ...

Without a patent airway, a patient has about four minutes to live, so doctors and paramedics put a huge amount of effort into honing their intubation skills. They have to be able to insert an ...

It is always ideal to have intravenous access (through an intravenous catheter) in any anesthetized patient. Intubation can be performed with the animal in dorsal or lateral recumbency ...

The mean cecal intubation time was 5.6 ± 3.2 min. Multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that patient age greater than 60 years, constipation, poor colon preparation and a two ...

With the new rapid sequence intubation (RSI) training and certification, Hampton paramedics can now perform intubations on conscious patients in extreme respiratory distress. Additionally ...