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Table 1 Characteristics of 2365 patients receiving intubation in the emergency departmenta

From: The effectiveness of rapid sequence intubation (RSI) versus non-RSI in emergency department: an analysis of multicenter prospective observational study

Patient characteristics

RSI

Non-RSI

(n = 761)

(n = 1604)

Age, mean (SD), years

61 (20)

61 (21)

Age ≤18 years (%)

23 (3%)

64 (4%)

 Age <2 years (%)

4 (0.5%)

18 (1%)

 Age 2–9 years (%)

7 (0.9%)

22 (1%)

 Age 10–18 years (%)

12 (2%)

24 (1%)

Male sex (%)

470 (62%)

941 (59%)

Body weight, mean (SD), kg

59 (15)

59 (17)

Primary indication (%)

 Medical encounters

589 (77%)

1333 (83%)

  Respiratory failure

239 (31%)

303 (19%)

  Altered mental status

231 (30%)

712 (44%)

  Shock

93 (13%)

216 (13%)

  Airway obstruction

11 (1%)

78 (5%)

  Asthma

7 (0.9%)

10 (0.6%)

  Other medical

8 (1%)

14 (0.8%)

 Trauma encounters

172 (23%)

271 (17%)

  Head trauma

65 (9%)

138 (9%)

  Shock

55 (7%)

60 (4%)

  Burn/inhalation

23 (3%)

16 (1%)

  Facial/neck trauma

15 (2%)

35 (2%)

  Other trauma

14 (2%)

22 (1%)

  1. Abbreviation: RSI rapid sequence intubation, SD standard deviation
  2. aPercentage may not equal 100 because of rounding