Incidence of Adverse Events During Prehospital Rapid Sequence Intubation: A Review of One Year on the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service

Newton, A.; Ratchford, Andrew; Khan, Ifty

doi:10.1097/ta.0b013e31802e7476

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Incidence of Adverse Events During Prehospital Rapid Sequence Intubation: A Review of One Year on the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service

Published in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care • Feb 1, 2008

Authors:

A. Newton

Andrew Ratchford

Ifty Khan

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To establish the incidence of hypoxemia and hypotension during prehospital rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in trauma patients attended by the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and to compare it with historical control data from published studies of both hospital and preh...

Subject

Medicine

Hypoxemia

Intubation

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