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The EvK Trial: Ketamine vs Etomidate for Rapid Sequence Intubation

REBEL EM

Duration of mechanical ventilation, ICU, and percentage of vasopressor use were not significantly different. In contrast, patients in the ketamine arm had higher rates of MICU admissions. Etomidate Use Is Associated With Less Hypotension Than Ketamine for Emergency Department Sepsis Intubations: A NEAR Cohort Study.

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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

Core EM

It is true, someone finally did an RTC on ICU level patients and found that first pass success IS better with VL than DL (Prekker 2023), but the fact remains that sometimes VL fails. 3) All India Difficult Airway Algorithm for ICU patients Figure 64 (from Myatra 2016) Indian guidelines- similar to British in defaulting to cricoid pressure.

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