Maintaining Prehospital Intubation Success with COVID-19 Personal Protective Precautions.
Pascale AverySam McAleerDavid RawlinsonStuart GillDavid LockeyPublished in: Prehospital and disaster medicine (2022)
This study presents simple changes to a prehospital intubation SOP in response to COVID-19 which included mandatory use of PPE, the first intubator always being the most experienced clinician, and routine first use of video laryngoscopy (VL). These changes allowed protection of the clinical team while successfully maintaining the first-pass and overall success rates for prehospital tracheal intubation.