citaat: Let’s put things into perspective. There are approximately 300,000 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States every year:
80% will get an advanced prehospital airway;
30% will be left at the scene after termination of resuscitation;
33% will get return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC);
25% will get admitted to the hospital;
10% will survive to hospital discharge; and
6% will be discharged neurologically intact.
80 % krijgt dus een LMA of ET tube, en de overige 20%?? allemaal met masker ballonbeademing naar de SEH toe???
en opvallend:
patients found in shockable rhythms had better neurologically intact survival with ETI compared to SGA.
There was no difference seen between ETI and SGA for cases of primary asystole or pulseless electrical activity.
So, the strongest conclusion we can make from these studies is that prehospital airway management and neurologically intact survival are linked. The challenging next step is determining why?
EMS airway management will always be a critical component of cardiac arrest management. We may not know exactly why, but it’s clear that your choices have downstream impacts on survival and quality of life. ETI may be beneficial in some patients, whereas a BVM may suffice in others.
No matter which ventilation method is used, you must monitor the effect and guide your team to provide effective ventilations, just as you guide them for effective compressions.