Endotracheal suctioning is a critical intervention utilised in intensive care units to ensure airway patency and optimise gas exchange in mechanically ventilated patients. This procedure, whether ...

When patients with a tracheostomy tube reach a stage in their care at which decannulation appears to be possible, it is common practice to cap the tracheostomy tube for 24 hours to see whether they ...

Airway management is a core emergency medicine competency. Physicians are expected to be able to intubate both adult and pediatric patients safely with a minimum of adverse events. A new study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Prophylactic endotracheal intubation prior to endoscopy was not beneficial for patients with ...

Deb Massey is also a Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, John Flynn Hospital. The current wave of COVID cases is leading to more hospital and intensive care (ICU) admissions. Frontline health ...

Clinicians with inadequate access to standard personal protective equipment (PPE) have been compelled to improvise protective barrier enclosures for use during endotracheal intubation. We describe one ...

The question of whether prehospital emergency anaesthesia and intubation improves survival in patients with major trauma has ...