San Diego—A unique study concluded that critically ill patients who undergo emergency endotracheal intubation with ketamine induction have a significantly higher likelihood of seven-day survival than those intubated with etomidate induction.
However, the investigation also found that these differences were nonsignificant by the 28th day after intubation, a finding that, in part, led the researchers to avoid recommending the use of one agent over the other.
“Both etomidate and ketamine