Planning the best way to do emergency breathing tubes
Part of Ear, nose & throat clinical trials.
This study tests an approach to improve how clinicians place an emergency breathing tube quickly and safely when someone is in serious breathing or life-threatening distress. It may help by standardizing care and optimizing medications and backup steps during urgent situations.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are an adult age 18 or older needing an emergency breathing tube placed right away (intubation) as judged by the emergency doctor before hospital arrival.
- Your emergency could be from many causes like severe trouble breathing, coma, overdose, or shock—but not from cardiac arrest.
- The study medicine plan can’t be used if you have known allergies or medical reasons that prevent using succinylcholine and/or rocuronium and/or sugammadex.
- You must be able to receive mask ventilation as a backup before the tube is placed (for example, you should not have ongoing vomiting, vomit blood, or blood being coughed up).
- You must be covered under a medical aid scheme (you are a beneficiary or main member).
- You should not be pregnant/breastfeeding, and you should not be under special legal protection (like guardianship/curatorship or deprivation of liberty).
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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