Dec 3, 2025
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AWAKE INTUBATION VIDEO
Here is the procedure for ED Awake Intubation–EMCrit Style:
DRY THEM OUT (Do All)
If you can give it early 10-15 min before topicalizing, it will be most effective.
Glycopyrolate: 0.2 mg IVP (No central effects – does not cross BBB. You can use atropine, but more side effects are possible)
Suction and then pad mouth dry with gauze – you want the mouth very dry!
TOPICALIZE (Do All)
5 cc of 4% lidocaine nebulized @ 5 liters per min
Gargle with viscous lidocaine (4% best, 2% ok). Place a blob (~3 cc) on a tongue depressor, put it in the back of the throat and have the patient gargle and then spit
Spray the epiglottis, cords, and trachea with 4% lidocaine (3 cc) in a Mucosal Atomizer Device (MAD). The patient will cough during this spraying, wear eye/face protection
Have another syringe loaded with 4% lidocaine to spray with during the procedure
Note: the systemic and pulmonary absorption from this method is quite low. The only place to watch out is spraying the trachea. I would not spray more than 2-3 cc down the ol’ windpipe.
SEDATE (Choose one!)
Ketamine and propofol in the same syringe makes Ketofol. The classic mix is 50 mg of ketamine to make 5 cc and 50 mg of propofol to make 5 cc. Put these both in a 10 cc syringe and shake. Depending on the patient’s hemodynamics, I sometimes will use more ketamine (75% instead of 50%). Give 1-2 cc every minute until you have the patient relaxed, but still breathing and arousable.
Ketamine alone also works just fine. Start with 20 mg and give 10 mg every minute or so.
If you have it, Dexmedetomidine also works very well as long as your patient is not bradycardic.
If you have neither of these 2 mg of midazolam will do just fine.
Preoxygenate with NRB
Optimally position (ear to sternal notch) with the head tilted all the way back
Restrain both arms with soft restraints to prevent the “grabbies”
Switch to nasal cannula
INTUBATE with Fiberoptic laryngoscope and bougie
If the patient coughs or is uncomfortable after placing the bougie through the cords, push the remainder of the ketofol syringe.
Thread the tube over the bougie with the laryngoscope still in the mouth
Confirm tube placement