Abstract Background Emergency Department (ED) airway registries are formalized methods
to collect and document airway practices and outcomes. Airway registries have become …

ABSTRACT Introduction: According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the
incidence of difficult intubation in the operating room is 1.2–3.8%; however, in emergency …

Background Pre-hospital advanced airway management is a complex intervention
composed of numerous steps, interactions, and variables that can be delivered to a high …

Background Lower intubation first-pass success (FPS) rate is associated with physiological
deterioration, and FPS is widely used as a quality indicator of the airway management of a …

Abstract Background Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) play an important role
in prehospital care of the critically ill. Differences in funding, crew composition, dispatch …

Objectives This study aimed to describe the short-term and long-term mortality of patients
treated by prehospital critical care teams in Finland. Design and setting We performed a …

Objective Despite its important role in care of the critically ill, there have been few large-
scale descriptions of the epidemiology of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) advanced …

Background Prehospital tracheal intubation is a potentially lifesaving intervention, but is
associated with prolonged time on-scene. Some services strongly advocate performing the …

Background Maintaining effective oxygenation throughout the process of Pre-Hospital
Emergency Anaesthesia (PHEA) is critical. There are multiple strategies available to …

Introduction Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is an infrequent but key component of prehospital
and retrieval medicine. Common measures of quality of ETI are the first pass success rates …