Management of Mechanical Ventilation in Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Invasive mechanical ventilation is used for approximately 250,000 emergency medicine (EM) patients annually and continues to increase. Despite rising volumes, EM clinicians receive limited training in ventilation management. Much of the existing evidence is derived from other environments, which may not fully apply to the unique conditions of EM. This scoping review broadly categorizes literature on invasive ventilation specific to EM patients and clinicians and identifies knowledge gaps to direct future research.

Methods

Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis extension for Scoping Reviews Checklist guidelines, this review comprehensively mapped the literature on optimizing invasive mechanical ventilation in EM. Studies involvi

SUBMITTER: Klemisch RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12765188 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature