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Emergency airway management in a tertiary trauma centre (AIRMAN): a one-year prospective longitudinal study

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Thomas J. Hall *
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Murdoch Leeies
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Duane J. Funk
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Carmen Hrymak
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Faisal Siddiqui
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Holly Black
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Kim Webster
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Jenn Tkach
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Matt Waskin
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Brenden Dufault
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Stephen Kowalski
DOI:10.1007/s12630-022-02390-2delete
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PurposeEmergency airway management can be associated with a range of complications including long-term neurologic injury and death. We studied the first-pass success rate with emergency airway management in a tertiary care trauma centre. Secondary outcomes were to identify factors associated with first-pass success and factors associated with adverse events peri-intubation.MethodsWe performed a single-centre, prospective, observational study of patients >= 17 yr old who were intubated in the emergency department (ED), surgical intensive care unit (SICU), medical intensive care unit (MICU), and inpatient wards at our institution. Ethics approval was obtained from the local research ethics board.ResultsIn a seven-month period, there were 416 emergency intubations and a first-pass success rate of 73.1%. The first-pass success rates were 57.5% on the ward, 66.1% in the intensive care units (ICUs) and 84.3% in the ED. Equipment also varied by location; videolaryngoscopy use was 65.1% in the ED and only 10.6% on wards. A multivariate regression model using the least absolute shrinkage and selection algorithm (LASSO) showed that the odds ratios for factors associated with two or more intubation attempts were location (wards, 1.23; MICU, 1.24; SICU, 1.19; reference group, ED), physiologic instability (1.19), an anatomically difficult airway (1.05), hypoxemia (1.98), lack of neuromuscular blocker use (2.28), and intubator inexperience (1.41).ConclusionsFirst-pass success rates varied widely between locations within the hospital and were less than those published from similar institutions, except for the ED. We are revamping ICU protocols to improve the first-pass success rate.
Keywords:
critical care
emergency
intubation
laryngoscopy
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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia and Journal canadien d anesthesie
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University of Manitoba
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health sciences centre winnipeg
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