Intubation in the pediatric emergency department is scary stuff. For critically ill children who require intubation, it is rarely practiced outside of the critical care unit. With the centralization of services there are reduced opportunities for these skills to be practiced.

Those working in DGHs may have fewer chances to practice these skills – and when they do it may be in an emergency situation.

This can be aided by collaboration with pediatric retrieval teams who can provide distanced advice for those in a non-tertiary setting until the retrieval team arrives. However, the overall management can be still on the local team.

A recent article by Kanaris et al. aims to give tips on how to provide a safe, rapid successful intubation along with some of the common pitfalls and how to overcome them.

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