Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

So hi and welcome back to the podcast.

So hi and welcome back to the podcast. I'm Simon Lang.

Rob Fenwick isn't with me this time but that's because this is a slightly different episode.

So I was lucky enough to be asked to speak at the Intensive Care Society's State of the Art conference.

On a topic that's dear to my heart, should EM clinicians be allowed to perform EDRSI?

Now there is some evidence-based medicine in here. There are some clinical guidelines,

but it's really food for thought on where the future of emergency medicine lies. Have a listen to

the podcast and make sure you go and check out all the references which are there on the website.

Thanks again to AbPrak, the sponsors of the podcast, for making this all possible. So without further

ado, we'll crack on with the episode and

we'll be back with our normal podcast really soon for you. Should ED doctors be allowed to

intubate? And when I say intubate, I mean perform a rapid sequence intubation in the

emergency department. It's a subject that really vexes me

and a lot of people involved in emergency medicine, but it's a really pivotal question in many

people's minds and it's really going to make a difference to the course of emergency medicine

with it being a key part of critical care of the emergency patient.

So what's the big deal? Why would an emergency medicine consultant want to come and talk to a group

of intensivists about our involvement in emergency airway management and in particular RSI?

Well, not only is an extremely important part of resuscitation and emergency and critical

care, but the UK is an outlier. When compared to countries dotted around the globe, we're

strange in the fact that emergency medics don't perform rapid sequence intubation as routine in the ED.

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