National Emergency Resuscitation Airway Audit (NERAA): a pilot multicentre analysis of emergency intubations in Irish emergency departments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is paucity of literature on why and how patients are intubated, and by whom, in Irish Emergency Departments (EDs). The aim of this pilot study was to characterise emergency airway management (EAM) of critically unwell patients presenting to Irish EDs.

Methods

A multisite prospective pilot study was undertaken from February 10 to May 10, 2020. This project was facilitated through the Irish Trainee Emergency Research Network (ITERN). All patients over 16 years of age requiring EAM were included. Eleven EDs participated in the project. Data recorded included patients' demographics, indication for intubation, technique of airway management, medications used to facilitate intubation, level of training and specialty of the intubating clinician, number of attempts,

SUBMITTER: Umana E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9148500 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature