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educational experience. First up, we have Swami who's going to

introduce us to the idea that there might be a better way to time the administration of RSI

medications and that timing them in just the right way might improve outcomes. He, by the way,

gave a mind-blowing talk at the summit on what to do when your vasopressers aren't working as

expected. All right, take it away, Dr. Swamanathan.

Rapid sequence intubation, RSI, is a specialty-defining procedure for emergency medicine

and resuscitation. The simplest definition of RSI is the near simultaneous administration of an

induction agent and a paralytic rapidly resulting in ideal intubating conditions. Over the last

five to 10 years, we've made a number of improvements in the way that we do RSI. Much of this

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