https://www.propublica.org/article/ems-crews-brought-patients-to-the-hospital-with-misplaced-breathing-tubes-none-of-them-survived
Places to never vacation. This is absolutely appalling.
It looks as if we will be using the International Terrastar where I work. I have spent my whole life in Ford E-450 diesel rigs. We have many fire departments that use International rigs for their Aid Cars and I have transported in all of them and the ride was either rough or really, really...
We are starting to look hard at our rates of VAP in our patients, both pre hospital intubations and in house. Currently the rates of pneumonia are fairly even if you compare hospital to pre hospital. We are probably going to do a study where we prep the mouth with Chlorhexidine prior to RSI...