Influence of Patient Weight on Prehospital Advanced Airway Procedure Success Rates.
Michael W HubbleMelisa MartinSara HoustonStephen E TaylorGinny R KaplanPublished in: Prehospital emergency care (2024)
This retrospective analysis of a national EMS database revealed that increasing patient weight was negatively associated with intubation success. A positive, but smaller, linear trend was observed for BIAD placement. Patient weight may be an easily identifiable predictor of difficult oral intubation and may be a consideration when selecting an airway management strategy.