Open AccessENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION PROCEDURES
Author(s) -
Shua Nasir,
Lal Shehbaz,
Hamid Raza,
Saqib Basar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.11.940
Subject(s) - medicine , intubation , endotracheal intubation , anesthesia , emergency department , emergency medicine , surgery , nursing
Objective: The objective of the study is to study the procedure of endotrachealintubation; its methods between Rapid sequence intubation and crash intubation its successrates and the associated short term complications at the accident and emergency departmentof a government run hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Study Design: Case series. Setting: Accidentand Emergency Department of Civil Hospital Karachi. Period: 2010 to 2012. Methods: Thesample size taken is of 260 patients, all of whom must be above the age of 14 years, andundergo the procedure of emergency endotracheal intubation. Rapid sequence intubation isanalyzed against crash intubation using descriptive type of statistical analysis. The significancelevel was p<0.05. Results: From the 260 Endotracheal intubations performed, 45 (17.30%)had to be discarded on account of incomplete data. The remaining study population was 215patients (123 males, 92 females) Rapid sequence intubation was the commonest type (n=138,64.18%). Head and neck injury, pulmonary edema was the common complication. Crashintubation was the second type (n= 77, 35.8%) Primary attempt success was found to be 97%(n=134) in rapid sequence intubation and 80% (n = 62) in crash Endotracheal intubations. Atotal of 13 complications (6.04 %) were observed. Conclusion: In light of the results obtainedour study shows a satisfactory success rate on using either mentioned types of intubationprocedures that is either RSI or Crash Intubation.