In my region, we are all about king airways. Its a simple airway that has a great success rate that can be used even by our BLS Providers. It allows you maintain the airway well and you can still run you ETCO2 off of it.
As far as intubation most of us only intubate for reasons where we know you can almost totally fix a patients by oxygenation and ventilation.
RSI.... Now that is a great skill that a lot of us would like to see be taught seeing as our transport times to the closest facility can be anywhere from 30 minutes to 70 minutes. If we do feel that its absolutely necessary we have to call a helicopter.
