The American journal of emergency medicine
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Review Meta Analysis
Advanced airway management for pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Although airway management is important in pediatric resuscitation, the effectiveness of bag-mask ventilation (BMV) and advanced airway management (AAM), such as endotracheal intubation (ETI) and supraglottic airway (SGA) devices, for prehospital resuscitation of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains unclear. We aimed to determine the efficacy of AAM during prehospital resuscitation of pediatric OHCA cases. ⋯ Although the available evidence is from observational studies and its certainty is low to very low, prehospital AAM for pediatric OHCA did not improve outcomes.