Airway Management

When Weight Leads You Astray: Avoiding Pediatric Airway Tube Size Errors
October 16, 2025

A 3-year-old child was intubated with a 6.5 cuffed endotracheal tube. He survived, but the consequences were devastating: permanent vocal…

Data from the AHA and the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) guidelines consistently report neurologic intact survival from pediatric cardiac arrest to be 3% for infants and 10% for children.