2023 Critical Care Year in Review (Part 2)

Research in mechanical ventilation, intubation, trauma and hemorrhage, neurology, nutrition, intensive insulin therapy, post-ICU outcomes

Intubation and mechanical ventilation

Video laryngoscopy was superior to direct laryngoscopy in first-pass success among ED residents and CCM fellows intubating critically ill patients (DEVICE trial). Besides confirming video laryngoscopy’s shorter learning curve, this result may also in part represent the decay in direct laryngoscopy skills in the post-…