Kyung Kang, Taeyun Kim, Young Sun Ro, Yu Jin Kim, Kyung Jun Song, Sang Do Shin
PURPOSE: Optimal out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) airway management strategies are still controversial. Recent studies reported survival was higher among patients who received bag-valve-mask (BVM) than those receiving endotracheal intubation (ETI) or supraglottic airway (SGA). The aim of this study was to compare neurologically favorable survival outcomes among adult nontraumatic OHCA patients by prehospital airway. METHODS: We used the Korean nationwide OHCA cohort database from 2010 to 2013...
February 2016: American Journal of Emergency Medicine