Intubation

AIRWAYS-2, looking at a strategy for paramedics of supraglottic airway vs endotracheal intubation in out of hospital medical cardiac arrests with regards to a good neurological outcome; they found no difference between the 2 groups?

ERC expert consensus states that ‘only systems that can achieve a high tracheal intubation success rate should use it’, defining this as 85% with 2 attempts?

Sackles demonstrated that first pass success in ED intubations was associated with fewer adverse events (AE)?

The parts focussed on in the podcast for successful RSI intubation were only the following aspects?

• Positioning
• Paralysis
• Intubation technique