Data collected included patient demographics, observations before, during and after RSI, and indication for RSI.
These data indicated that RSI was likely responsible for efficient binding of core peptide to the enzyme.
Table 2 presents a data variable comparison from RSI in successful intubation versus failed intubation groups.
Table 1 presents a data variable comparison from RSI in trauma versus nontrauma patients.
Although rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is the method of choice in emergency department (ED) airway management, data to support the use of RSI remain scarce.
Secondly, we analyzed the stimulus-locked data for both long and short RSI conditions.
Data on patient demographics, injury characteristics, RSI characteristics (including indications, Cormack and Lehane grade, drug doses and number of attempts) and haemodynamic measures were extracted from these sources.
In the same time period, outcome data is available for 58 patients meeting RSI criteria but not receiving the intervention.
RSI for medical (non-trauma) indications and cases with no monitor printout record of haemodynamic data were excluded.
The PET data were analyzed using in-house-developed analysis tools within the IDL environment (Interactive Data Language Virtual Machine 6.2, RSI Inc., Boulder, CO, USA).
