But if you were watching the show -- or any other TV medical drama -- for tips on proper intubation technique, a new study suggests you should have looked elsewhere.

The practice of airway management and tracheal intubation remains a cornerstone of emergency and critical care medicine. Advances in technology and protocol development have substantially improved ...

If you can't breathe on your own, intubation is the process that puts in the tube that connects you to a ventilator. Find out what you can expect from the procedure.

For the first time, unrecognized esophageal intubation is the subject of a new guideline aimed at reducing the incidence of mistaken intubation and associated morbidity and mortality.

Failure to establish an airway can be life-threatening. Although relatively rare, such cases tend to be underreported. Advances in visualization techniques may be helpful. Difficult intubation can ...

In nasogastric (NG) intubation, a thin tube is placed through your nose into your stomach. Learn why this procedure is used and what it involves.

People who prepare for the possibility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by specifying selected options - “everything but intubation” or “everything but defibrillation” – don’t ...