Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Emergency medical services (EMS) occupy a unique position in the continuum of emergency health care delivery. The role of EMS personnel is expanding beyond their traditional identity as out-of-hospital care providers, to include participation and active leadership in EMS administration, education, and research. With these roles come new challenges, as well as new responsibilities. This paper was developed by the SAEM EMS Task Force and provides a discussion of these new concepts as well as recommendations for the specialty of emergency medicine to foster the continued development of all of the potentials of EMS.
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Rapid-sequence intubation (RSI) is an active airway intervention used frequently in emergency medicine (EM). The authors hypothesized that RSI can be performed safely in the setting of an EM training program at a tertiary care center. ⋯ In the setting of an EM residency at a tertiary care ED, RSI can be performed successfully with few major immediate adverse events.
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Editorial Comment
Rapid-sequence intubation: a safe but ill-defined procedure.