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Public Awareness of Emergency Intubation Study

Vanderbilt Health is conducting a study called "Intubation with Sedation Only to Preserve Independently Respiratory Effort" (INSPIRE). The study seeks to learn whether seriously ill patients being placed on a breathing machine should receive a medication that makes them sleepy (a sedative) by itself or with the addition of a medication that temporarily immobilizes their muscles (a neuromuscular blocker).

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