Few topics provoke as many strong opinions in emergency medicine as airway management. Each and every one of us considers ourselves airway masters (despite lots of evidence to the contrary). We know for sure that our way is the best way. These strong and divergent opinions were well illustrated by […]
Intubation
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This is bound to be a controversial topic. The conclusion of this systematic review and meta-analysis is that “the findings suggest that use of intubation checklists is not associated with improved clinical outcomes during and after endotracheal intubation.” The FOAMed world has a lot of checklist advocates (myself included, although […]
So far this week, I have covered 2 large trials looking at airway management strategies in out of hospital cardiac arrest. In both instances, outcomes were similar whatever strategy was employed. Maybe our choice of airway management doesn’t matter? Not so fast, we finish the series with a final RCT, […]
Airway management is cardiac arrest is always a hot topic of debate. Yesterday we looked at AIRWAYS2, demonstrating no difference in survival with good neurologic outcomes between a laryngeal mask airway and intubation. (Benger 2018) However, those are both advanced interventions. Are either required? Where does the mighty bag valve […]
