Trial design and oversight
EMERGENCY
From March 2019 to December 2020, this single-centre, randomized, single-blind, controlled trial, with 1:1 allocation, was conducted by the Emergency Medicine Research Group at Thammasat University Hospital (TUH) in Pathum Thani, Thailand. TUH is an 800-bed tertiary academic teaching hospital in the suburbs north of Bangkok, with approximately 1.1 million people living in the area. The ED of TUH sees 60,000 patients annually, and approximately 500 patients need emergency intubation each year. A previous study showed a very high success rate of emergency intubation overall and at the first attempt rate in the ED of TUH (99.4% and 74.7%, respectively)