Etomidate-Facilitated Intubation in the Prehospital Setting

Environmental conditions, limited resources, and safety concerns can lead to airway management challenges in the prehospital setting. Few emergency medical services organizations have implemented the emergency department gold standard of rapid sequence intubation. Some have used an induction agent alone (facilitated intubation). These authors compared success rates for facilitated intubation before and after introduction of an etomidate protocol …