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.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The optimal approach to airway management during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is unknown.

Objective

To determine whether a supraglottic airway device (SGA) is superior to tracheal intubation (TI) as the initial advanced airway management strategy in adults with nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Design, setting, and participants

Multicenter, cluster randomized clinical trial of paramedics from 4 ambulance services in England responding to emergencies for approximately 21 million people. Patients aged 18 years or older who had a nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and were treated by a participating paramedic were enrolled automatically under a waiver of consent between June 2015 and August 2017; follow-up ended in February 2018.

Inter

SUBMITTER: Benger JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6142999 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature