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Affiliations

¹ Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN. Electronic address: matthew.w.semler@vanderbilt.edu.
² Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care & Allergy/Immunology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
³ Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

Comment

Matthew W Semler et al. Chest. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;152(6):1351.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.09.032.

¹ Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN. Electronic address: matthew.w.semler@vanderbilt.edu.
² Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care & Allergy/Immunology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
³ Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

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Comment on

A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Ramped Position vs Sniffing Position During Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults.
Semler MW, Janz DR, Russell DW, Casey JD, Lentz RJ, Zouk AN, deBoisblanc BP, Santanilla JI, Khan YA, Joffe AM, Stigler WS, Rice TW; Check-UP Investigators(∗); Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group. Semler MW, et al. Chest. 2017 Oct;152(4):712-722. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.03.061. Epub 2017 May 6. Chest. 2017. PMID: 28487139 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.
Optimal Position for Intubation in the ICU: An Uneven Playing Field?
Abdulmahdi M, Grazioli A, McCurdy MT. Abdulmahdi M, et al. Chest. 2017 Dec;152(6):1350. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.09.034. Chest. 2017. PMID: 29223263 No abstract available.

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