Intubation drugs and doses

Drugs: sedation and analgesia for intubation. Laryngoscopy and intubation cause discomfort; in alert patients, EV administration of a short-acting drug with sedative or combined sedative and analgesic properties is mandatory. Etomidate, a non-barbiturate hypnotic, at a dose of 0.3 mg/kg may be the drug of choice.

Options for endotracheal intubation include succinylcholine, intubation without an NMBA (eg, high dose remifentanil intubation, although this technique is associated with more trauma), or rocuronium or vecuronium if sugammadex is available for rapid reversal of block. (See 'Sugammadex' below.)

The usually recommended intubating dose of cisatracurium (a slow onset drug) is 0.15 to 0.20 mg/kg (3 4xED95). The commonly cited intubation-dose of 0.60 mg/kg for rocuronium represents less than 2xED95, yet the drug's onset profile is slower that that of succinylcholine.

The procedure of placing a tracheal tube is still called endotracheal intubation. drugs to facilitate intubation. Regardless of where

The standard intubating dose during routine anaesthesia is 0.6 mg rocuronium bromide per kg body weight, after which adequate intubation conditions are

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Drugs used in RSI control the adverse physiological effects of intubation responses to intubation in high doses, but at the risk of hypotension. The

Other patients are given sedating and paralytic drugs to minimize discomfort and facilitate intubation (termed rapid sequence intubation) (see table