Table 3
Immediate complications
| Emergency medicine | Anaesthesia | |
|---|---|---|
| Figures are number of individual complications. All oesophageal intubations were immediately recognised and all patients had their tracheas intubated. | ||
| Oesophageal intubation | 17 | 6 |
| Endobronchial intubation | 6 | 3 |
| Aspiration | 2 | 6 |
| Vomiting/regurgitation | 4 | 6 |
| Critical desaturation | 10 | 7 |
| Severe hypotension (systolic BP <90 mm Hg) | 17 | 8 |
| Surgical airway | 1 | 1 |
| Cardiac arrest | 3 | 1 |
