After blind intubation and patient positioning, more than one third of DLTs required repositioning. Routine bronchoscopy is therefore recommended after intubation and after patient positioning.

Staff training by an ICU change team improved compliance to a pre-defined ventilator bundle. This led to a reduction in the days spent on mechanical ventilation, despite incomplete bundle implementation.

IV midazolam 0.015 mg/kg administered 90 s before induction of anesthesia with etomidate is effective in reducing myoclonic movements and does not prolong recovery in unpremedicated patients after short procedures.

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Endtidal capnography offers accurate respiratory monitoring of HFJV. Transcutaneous monitoring showed a good correlation to ABG only during steady-state conditions. For the dynamic phase the accuracy was significantly lower. Thus, we cannot recommend transcutaneous respiratory monitoring for the specific indication of rigid bronchoscopy using HFJV.