title: Prehospital endotracheal intubation: elemental or detrimental?
abstract: This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA. Paul.Pepe@UTSW.edu.|The Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas County, USA. Paul.Pepe@UTSW.edu.
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Pepe
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA. Lynn.Roppolo@UTSW.edu.|The Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas County, USA. Lynn.Roppolo@UTSW.edu.
authors.forename: Lynn P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Roppolo
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA. Snerd@Earthlink.net.|The Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas County, USA. Snerd@Earthlink.net.
authors.forename: Raymond L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Fowler
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D004634:Emergency Medical Technicians / Q000193:education; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000009:adverse effects