NEW YORK - In trauma victims with severe head injuries, reduced levels of oxygen and lower heart rates are common complications of out-of-hospital rapid sequence intubation conducted by paramedics, ...

PITTSBURGH, July 18 – Across the United States, many patients require insertion of emergency breathing tubes before arriving to a hospital, but emergency medicine researchers at the University of ...

Chipola College Paramedic students were invited to provide training on intubation procedures to second year medical students at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine in Dothan. The four Chipola ...

A newer breathing tube could save the lives of more than 10,000 sudden cardiac arrest patients a year for a simple reason: it's easier than standard intubation to insert on the first try, according to ...

Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) Mobile Intensive Care Unit supervisor Ronald Tyson and paramedic Magaly Rivera show a smaller Mach 1 intubation blade (bottom) used for pediatric patients as compared ...

Washington's Department of Health is investigating nine Bellingham firefighters after it was revealed that intubations were performed on a dead man. Oct. 04 -- The Washington State Department of ...

Intubation is the placement of a flexible plastic tube into the trachea in order to maintain an open airway to serve as a conduit through which to administer certain drugs. In order to get hands-on ...

Thirty-day mortality of patients with major trauma fell if they received intubation before hospital admission per prediction from a machine learning risk-stratifying model, according to data published ...

Patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) fared similarly whether paramedics took one approach to advanced airway management or another, the Taiwanese SAVE trial showed. Clinical outcomes ...

The Washington State Department of Health is actively investigating nine members of the Bellingham Fire Department for their roles in the July 31 incident at Station 1 in which an intubation procedure ...