If at First You Don't Succeed: Patient Characteristics Associated with First-Attempt Failure of Video Laryngoscopy in the Intensive Care Unit

Matthew W Semler¹, Mark E Mikkelsen^{2

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Affiliations

¹ 1 Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
² 2 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and.
³ 3 Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Editorial

Matthew W Semler et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017 Mar.

. 2017 Mar;14(3):305-306.

doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201612-1029ED.

Matthew W Semler¹, Mark E Mikkelsen^{2

3}

¹ 1 Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
² 2 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and.
³ 3 Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Comment on

Difficult Airway Characteristics Associated with First-Attempt Failure at Intubation Using Video Laryngoscopy in the Intensive Care Unit.
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