Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 6 , Pages 525-530, June 2006

Etomidate Versus Midazolam for Out-of-Hospital Intubation: A Prospective, Randomized Trial

Presented as a poster at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, October 2003, Boston, MA.

  • Jeanne Jacoby, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine Residency, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Jeanne Jacoby, MD, Emergency Medicine Residency, St. Luke’s Hospital, 801 Ostrum Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015; 610-954-4903, fax 610-954-2153
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  • Michael Heller, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine Residency, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA
    • ,
  • Jonathan Nicholas, NREMT-P

      Affiliations

    • Bethlehem Township EMS, Bethlehem, PA
    • ,
  • Nilesh Patel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine Residency, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA
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  • Mark Cesta, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine Residency, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA
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  • Gordon Smith, EMT-P

      Affiliations

    • Bethlehem City EMS, Bethlehem, PA.
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  • Sharon Jacob, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine Residency, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA
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  • James Reed, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine Residency, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA

Received 1 September 2005; received in revised form 18 November 2005 and 2 December 2005; accepted 9 December 2005. published online 08 February 2006.

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 Supervising editor: Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Author contributions: JJ, MH, JN conceived the study and designed the trial. JJ, GS, JM supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. JR provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data and performed interim analysis. MC, JJ, GS, JN were responsible for paramedic teaching and field implementation. NP performed data collection and formatting (pre-hospital). SJ performed data collection and formatting (follow-up). JJ and MH drafted the manuscript. JJ takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)02042-1

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.12.009

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