| Methods |
Randomized clinical trial. Single blind where ICU physicians but not ER physicians were blinded |
| Participants |
n = 98. All patients receiving RSI |
| Interventions |
Ketamine 2 mg/kg versus etomidate 0.3 mg/kg |
| Outcomes |
Primary: 30 day mortality, or discharge, whichever occurred first. Secondary: first pass intubation success, number of intubation attempts, number of post‐intubation sedative boluses within 6 hours, post‐intubation hypotension within 6 hours, post‐intubation hypoxaemia within 2 hours |
| Notes |
This is an interim report of their study. 98 patients have been enrolled. This reports the outcomes of 58 patients with available data |
