Video versus Direct Laryngoscopy for Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults

Matthew E Prekker¹, Brian E Driver¹, Stacy A Trent¹+42

• ¹From the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine (M.E.P., S.J.H.), and the Department of Emergency Medicine (M.E.P., B.E.D.), Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis; the Department of Emergency Medicine (S.A.T.) and the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine (I.S.D., T.G.), Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, and the Department of Emergency Medicine (S.A.T., D.R.-A., J.J.B., A.A.G.) and the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (I.S.D.), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora; the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (K.P.S., T.W.R., J.D.C., M.W.S.), the Departments of Anesthesiology (J.P.W., C.G.H.), Emergency Medicine (B.D.L., W.H.S.), and Biostatistics (B.I., L.W.), and the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (J.P.R., K.N.W., W.H.S., T.W.R., M.W.S.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine (D.W.R., M.R.W., S.G., D.B.P.), and the Department of Emergency Medicine (M.R.W.), University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, and the Pulmonary Section, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (D.W.R.) - both in Birmingham; the Department of Anesthesiology, Section on Critical Care (J.P.G.), and the Department of Emergency Medicine (J.P.G., J.K.G.), Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, and the Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine (K.W.G., J.A.P.), Winston-Salem, and the Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham (V.K., J.T.H.) - all in North Carolina; the Departments of Emergency Medicine (A.J.L., S.H.M.) and Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (C.R.B., A.J.), University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, Seattle; the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Baylor Scott and White Health, Temple (S.A.G., H.D.W.), and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston (S.G.S.), and the 59th Medical Wing, U.S. Air Force, Fort Sam Houston (B.J.L.), San Antonio - all in Texas; the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Ochsner Health (D.J.V., A.E.), and University Medical Center New Orleans and the Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, and Allergy and Immunology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine (D.R.J.) - all in New Orleans; and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (A.D., N.I.S.).