Research Article
The Success Rate of Endotracheal Intubation in the Emergency Department of Tertiary Care Hospital in Ethiopia, One-Year Retrospective Study
Table 4
Immediate complications of intubations at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
| Complications | RSI (n = 110), n (%) | Non-RSI (n = 146), n (%) | Total (%) (N = 256) |
| (SpO2) <93%, | 13 (11.8) | 19 (13.0) | 32 (12.5) | Hypotension | 6 (5.5) | 19 (13.0) | 25 (9.8) | Bradycardia<60/min | 3 (2.7) | 9 (6.2) | 12 (4.7) | Esophageal intubation | 5 (4.5) | 2 (1.4) | 7 (2.7) | Difficult intubation | 4 (3.6) | 1 (0.7) | 5 (1.9) | Laryngeal spasm | 1 (0.9) | 1 (0.7) | 2 (0.8) | Surgical airway(tracheostomy) | 0 (0) | 2 (1.4) | 2 (0.8) | Self-extubation | 1 (0.9) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.4) | Vomit appearing in the airway after induction | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
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