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RSI originated in the anesthesia literature to prevent aspiration in unprepped patients undergoing general anesthesia. From the first anecdotal reports of p-RSI in 1972, prehospital intubation has matured into widespread use. The often conflicting outcome data underscored the need to standardize the approach to p-RSI.
Graham Hughes described in 1983 a syndrome, characterized by recurrent arterial and. venous thrombosis, pregnancy morbidity, thrombocytopenia, and the presence of. antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL), which was named antiphospholipid syndrome [Hughes, 1983]. Many other features of this syndrome were identified during the time. In present, antiphospholipid syndrome is considered a systemic form of autoantibody-induced thrombophilia, which involves many organs [Wilson et al., 1999].