There is an immense gap between the number of poisoned patients with impaired
consciousness admitted in our hospitals every day worldwide and the lack of solid evidence …

Importance Tracheal intubation is recommended for coma patients and those with severe
brain injury, but its use in patients with decreased levels of consciousness from acute …

Imagine if a new multicenter, randomized trial of a pharmaceutical drug found that for every
3 patients treated on presentation to the hospital with a common severe illness, one …

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was introduced in 1974 to describe the depth of impaired
consciousness [1]. Its simplicity has enabled healthcare professionals to uniformly …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate prehospital sedation protocols used by several
French mobile intensive care units for difficult intubations in poisoned patients. This …

A short cut review of the literature was carried out to establish whether any risk factors would
predict the need for endotracheal intubation in undifferentiated adult patients presenting with …

In patients with coma due to acute poisoning, withholding intubation improved clinical
outcomes | Annals of Internal Medicine Advertisement ACP Online Annals of Internal Medicine …

Patients frequently present to the ED with drug overdose and reduced conscious level
leading to coma. There is considerable practice variation around which patients require …

Background More than 20,000 emergency department (ED) patients undergo intubation for
overdose each year. While the characteristics of patients intubated for overdose and …

Objective: To determine whether the initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score is predictive of
intubation difficulty in out‐of‐hospital airway management of poisoned patients. Methods: A …