Emergency airway management in a tertiary trauma centre (AIRMAN): a one-year prospective longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Emergency airway management can be associated with a range of complications including long-term neurologic injury and death. We studied the first-pass success rate with emergency airway management in a tertiary care trauma centre. Secondary outcomes were to identify factors associated with first-pass success and factors associated with adverse events peri-intubation.

Methods

We performed a single-centre, prospective, observational study of patients ≥ 17 yr old who were intubated in the emergency department (ED), surgical intensive care unit (SICU), medical intensive care unit (MICU), and inpatient wards at our institution. Ethics approval was obtained from the local research ethics board.

Results

In a seven-month period, there were 416 emergency intubations an

SUBMITTER: Hall T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857903 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature