Difficult Airway Characteristics Associated with First-Attempt Failure at Intubation Using Video Laryngoscopy in the Intensive Care Unit

Autor: Harsharon Chopra, John C. Sakles, Cameron Hypes, Josh Malo, Raj Joshi, Jeremy Greenberg, Linda Snyder, John W. Bloom, Jarrod Mosier
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 14:368-375
ISSN: 2325-6621
2329-6933
DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.201606-472oc
Popis: Rationale: Video laryngoscopy has overcome the need to align the anatomic axes to obtain a view of the glottic opening to place a tracheal tube. However, despite this advantage, a large number of attempts are unsuccessful. There are no existing data on anatomic characteristics in critically ill patients associated with a failed first attempt at laryngoscopy when using video laryngoscopy.Objectives: To identify characteristics associated with first-attempt failure at intubation when using video laryngoscopy in the intensive care unit (ICU).Methods: This is an observational study of 906 consecutive patients intubated in the ICU with a video laryngoscope between January 2012 and January 2016 in a single-center academic medical ICU. After each intubation, the operator completed a data collection form, which included information on difficult airway characteristics, device used, and outcome of each attempt. Multivariable regression models were constructed to determine the difficult airway characteristics associ...
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