French Ministry of Health and the Société Française d'Anesthésie Réanimation.

A novel strategy for preoxygenation in hypoxaemic patients, adding HFNC for apnoeic oxygenation to NIV prior to orotracheal intubation, may be more effective in reducing the severity of oxygen desaturation than the reference method using NIV alone.

These results suggest that VL could be useful in airway management of ICU patients.

The systematic use of a combo videolaryngoscope in ICU was associated with a decreased incidence of difficult laryngoscopy and/or difficult intubation.