Avoiding desaturation during endotracheal intubation: is high-flow nasal cannula the answer?

Thais Dias Midega¹, Guilherme Benfatti Olivato¹, Fabio Barlem Hohmann¹, Ary Serpa Neto^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Department of Intensive Care, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location 'AMC', Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Cardio-Pulmonary, Division of Pulmonary, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Editorial

Thais Dias Midega et al. Ann Transl Med. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;7(Suppl 6):S211.

doi: 10.21037/atm.2019.08.122.

Thais Dias Midega¹, Guilherme Benfatti Olivato¹, Fabio Barlem Hohmann¹, Ary Serpa Neto^{1

2

3}

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Department of Intensive Care, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location 'AMC', Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Cardio-Pulmonary, Division of Pulmonary, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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