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Review
. 2015 Mar 16;19(1):121.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-015-0808-x.

Prehospital endotracheal intubation: elemental or detrimental?

Paul E Pepe  1   2 , Lynn P Roppolo  3   4 , Raymond L Fowler  5   6
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Review

Prehospital endotracheal intubation: elemental or detrimental?

Paul E Pepe et al. Crit Care. .

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.

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Endotracheal intubation in the out-of-hospital setting. In the early years of out-of-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) systems, advanced life support personnel were not only trained in the nuances of how to avoid overzealous ventilation and properly place an endotracheal tube in very challenging circumstances, but they were also well-supervised on-scene by expert physicians who themselves were highly-experienced and exceptionally familiar with those challenges as well as methods to overcome them (photo by Dr. Paul Pepe).
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