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Endotracheal Intubation in the ICU

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((YEARBOOK,volume 2009))

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Patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) often have acute respiratory failure and/or cardiovascular collapse. In addition, reserves of oxygenation and organ perfusion are limited in ICU patients in contrast to non-critically ill patients. Endotracheal intubation, which is one of the most commonly performed procedures in the ICU, is associated with a high incidence of complications because of the precarious hemodynamic and respiratory status of critically ill patients [1–3]. The incidence of life-threatening complications associated with endotracheal intubation (severe hypoxemia, cardiovascular collapse, cardiac arrest, death) in ICU patients ranges from 25 to 39% [1, 3, 4]. Severe but non life-threatening complications, including cardiac arrhythmia, difficult endotracheal intubation, esophageal and/or traumatic endotracheal intubation, aspiration, and patient agitation [1] generally occur in 10 to 30 % of endotracheal intubations [1, 3, 4].

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  1. Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology CHU, Hôpital Saint Eloi, 80 avenue Augustin Fiche, 34295, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

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Jaber, S., Jung, B., Chanques, G. (2009). Endotracheal Intubation in the ICU. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92276-6_30

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