Apneic Oxygenation Including Precipitous Intubations During RSI in the ED (RAPID)

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Apneic Oxygenation

Endotracheal Intubation

Treatments

Other: Apneic oxygenation during endotracheal intubation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03694379

Pro2018000579

Details and patient eligibility

About

This RCT is testing the efficacy of apneic oxygenation during endotracheal intubation in the emergency department. Currently the standard practice in the ED when performing endotracheal intubation is that some providers use apneic oxygenation (the application of a nasal cannula at 15LPM) throughout the intubation procedure, while others do not apply apneic oxygenation. Initial literature in the operating room showed that apneic oxygenation helps prevent desaturation during the procedure. However, the latest literature conducted in critical care settings (one study in the ICU and one in the ED) questions the efficacy of this intervention in critically ill patients; however, no harm has been shown. Our study aims to test this intervention further by adding in a special subset of patients that was excluded from prior studies, precipitous intubations, or those patients that have to be intubated quickly and cannot have adequate pre-oxygenation. We hypothesize that apneic oxygenation will be more efficacious in this subset than in the overall ED population. We will randomize patients requiring endotracheal intubation into intervention (apneic oxygenation) and control (no apneic oxygenation). We will measure the lowest arterial oxygen saturation from the start of the intubation procedure through 2 minutes after intubation is complete.

Enrollment

10 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The inclusion criteria for our study will include patients 18 years or older who require emergent endotracheal intubation utilizing rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in the Emergency Department with first attempt taken by a resident or attending physician working in the emergency department. This includes Emergency Medicine attending physicians and residents as well as non-Emergency Medicine rotators (e.g.., Internal Medicine residents who are rotating through the Emergency Department).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria include patients who are in cardiac arrest, or if the patient received any positive pressure ventilation (i.e, BPAP, CPAP, BVM) in the emergency department before RSI.