Without a patent airway, a patient has about four minutes to live, so doctors and paramedics put a huge amount of effort into honing their intubation skills. They have to be able to insert an ...

Trauma medicine is a field where tradition often dictates practice. Yet, Dr Paula Ferrada shattered decades of medical dogma ...

Medical professionals use a video laryngoscope to help insert a breathing tube into a patient's airway, a procedure known as intubation. This new device represents a user-focused evolution of the ...

Recent study investigates the effectiveness of the El-Ganzouri risk index (EGRI) and skin-to-epiglottis distance (SED) as ...

A jury in Baltimore has awarded more than $8 million to the family of a man who died following a routine endoscopy procedure. According to an April 16 news release by Washington-based Nace Law Group, ...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the factors affecting cecal intubation during colonoscopy performed under deep sedation. Methods: A total of 5352 consecutive subjects who underwent a ...