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Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthesia Warrington Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Making tracheal intubation safe for both patients and their health care providers. Introduction COVID-19 is a newly recognised viral infection which first appeared in Wuhan, China in late 2019. It is caused by a novel Coronavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoronaVirus-2. For the most part it results in a mild, self-limiting flu-like illness but unfortunately, severe type one...
READ MOREA go-anywhere checklist format to improve emergency tracheal intubation. Introduction Tracheal intubation outside the operating room is fraught with danger. According to the landmark NAP4 study, intubation in the ICU may be associated with 50 times greater risk of procedure-related death and brain injury compared to general anaesthetic practice (Cook et al. 2011). The primary risk factors...
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