Citation

Bierens JJLM. Resuscitation 2021; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.04.002

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The closing conclusion of the study by Ryan et al., on the impact of prehospital airway interventions on cardiac arrest following drowning and published in this issue of Resuscitation, is that survival to discharge with good neurological outcome, in their dataset, did not significantly differ between bag valve mask ventilation, supraglottic airway and endotracheal tube. 1
More research efforts to understand the benefits, practical problems and outcome of the various ventilation techniques are needed. Notwithstanding that the study results by Ryan et al. have no direct implementation effects, the publication can at the same time be positioned within the context of two other important issues: the difficulties to perform drowning-focussed resuscitation research and the remaining options to ventilate drowned persons...

Language: en