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Emergency Medicine educational podcast. We are committed to providing high quality education to improve the care of the emergency patient in Maine, northern New England and beyond.
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Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
How should we handle the airway in out of hospital cardiac arrest? Just bag and go? Should we tube these guys? Maybe just toss in a supraglottic? In this podcast we review these three strategies and the recent research on the topic.
Article 1:
Effect of Bag-Mask Ventilation vs Endotracheal Intubation During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on Neurological Outcome After Out-of-Hospital Cardiorespiratory Arrest
A Randomized Clinical Trial [pubmed]
Article 2:
Effect of a Strategy of a Supraglottic Airway Device vs Tracheal Intubation During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest on Functional Outcome: The AIRWAYS-2 Randomized Clinical Trial. [pubmed]
Article 3:
Effect of a Strategy of Initial Laryngeal Tube Insertion vs Endotracheal Intubation on 72-Hour Survival in Adults With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Randomized Clinical Trial. [pubmed]
The Glasgow-Pittsburgh Cerebral Performance Categories
Author: Jason Hine MD and Sam Potter MD
Peer Reviewer: Jeff Holmes MD