Does out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation improve survival and neurological outcome in pediatric patients treated in an urban EMS system?
Out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation does not improve survival or neurological outcomes compared to bag-valve-mask ventilation in pediatric patients.
These results indicate that the addition of out-of-hospital ETI to a paramedic scope of practice that already includes BVM did not improve survival or neurological outcome of pediatric patients treated in an urban EMS system.
Gausche et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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