Description: Prehospital Emergency Medicine
The methods to confirm tracheal intubation (and exclude accidental oesophageal intubation) are classically divided in Techniques not requiring manual ventilation and Techniques requiring manual ventilation: :
Despite nowadays is evident that CO2 detection is the gold standard in terms of sensibility and specificity, our daily practice in managing airways still and strongly rely on clinical methods to confirm when the tube is correctly posed in the trachea and not in the oesophagus.
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