Orlando, Fla.—The routine use of apneic oxygenation during endotracheal intubation of critically ill adults does not necessarily increase oxygen saturation compared with usual care, a recent study has concluded.
“Interventions that appear effective in the highly controlled environment of the operating room [OR] frequently fail to translate to critically ill patients in the ICU,” said Matthew Wall Semler, MD, of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at