From the classroom to the emergency room, O.R. and beyond. You're joining trauma ICU rounds with your host, Dr. Dennis Kim.

I'd like to welcome you back to episode two of trauma ICU rounds. I'm your host, Dr. Dennis Kim. I hope that everyone is doing their very best to stay safe and healthy during these

trying times. I'd like to start the show today by giving a shout out to all of the brave and

fantastic folks out there that continue to be on the front lines, providing meals, security,

and care to those of us in need. I'd especially also like to thank all of my wonderful colleagues,

partners, and friends at Harbor, UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, for continuing to show up each and every

day to work and continuing to provide world-class care to our patients, their families, and loved

ones. And for our friends and colleagues on the East Coast and other epicenters of the coronavirus,

please know that you guys

are always in my thoughts and prayers, and please do let us know what we can be doing to further

support your efforts.

Now, in keeping with our airway and breathing theme for these first few episodes, today I want

to spend a little bit of time discussing rapid sequence intubation or RSI and contrast it with what's

come to be known or labeled as a protected airway or protected intubation. In doing so, I'd like to

share with you some of the findings and tips that we've learned during the course of routine

clinical care and in the process of running multidisciplinary in situ simulations,

to assess the response of our hospital-wide emergency airway response team, which is staffed

by friends in the ER and anesthesia. So by the end of rounds today, you should be able to,

number one, describe the steps involved in performing rapid sequence intubation, also referred to as drug-assisted intubation.

And the second objective of today's rounds is to really get you to pause, think, and prepare

before rushing into a patient's room to secure a definitive airway, particularly in this day and age.

As many of you have heard me say around the workplace,

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