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When to Pull the Trigger

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There are many occasions during critical care of a patient where intubation is necessary. Once you have decided that a patient will require intubation, the next question then becomes, “How much time do I have?” Do they need to be intubated immediately? Or “do I have a couple hours to observe and attempt other interventions?” We cannot always perfectly time our intubations but we can classify airways into categories of urgency: elective, urgent, emergent, or crash. Understanding the level or urgency allows for better planning leading you to airway success!

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Kendrick, Z. (2021). When to Pull the Trigger. In: Garvin, R. (eds) Intubating the Critically Ill Patient. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56813-9_2

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