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Endotracheal intubation in critically ill patients can be difficult and associated with significant morbidity and mortality [1–3]. Patients have underlying life-threatening pathology, may be hypoxemic and hypotensive, and may not tolerate induction and neuromuscular blockers well. Intubations in the ICU may differ vastly from intubations in the operating room which are often elective and performed in a controlled setting by trained anesthesiologists. Incidence of difficult intubation in the ICU as reported in literature ranges from 1% to 23% depending on the definition of the difficult intubation and center [4–7].
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Saran, J.S., Dooley, J.W. (2019). Advanced and Difficult Airway Management in the ICU. In: LaRosa, J. (eds) Adult Critical Care Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94424-1_14
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