Primary Children's Medical Center canceled a scheduled training for flight nurses involving intubation of cats--used as a proxy for an infant child--which People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ...

General anesthesia with tracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation is widely used in patients undergoing a variety of surgical procedures 1,2,3. However, alveolar collapse is multifactorial in ...

Indiana University has announced it will stop using live cats to train intubation in its pediatric residency program, according to a Petside report. Following a request by the Physicians Committee for ...

Etomidate, the most common anesthesia induction agent for emergency tracheal intubation, causes adrenal suppression and can lead to corticosteroid insufficiency. In a large trial, in-hospital death ...

Endotracheal tube (ET) misplacement is common in pediatric patients, which can lead to the serious complication. It would be helpful if there is an easy-to-use tool to predict the optimal ET depth ...

Novices have greater success with tracheal intubation using an optical laryngoscope compared with a rigid laryngoscope, according to a study published in the Feb. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.