Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Multicenter Study
Prehospital airway management for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A nationwide multicenter study from the KOCARC registry.
This study investigated whether prehospital advanced airway management (AAM) is associated with improved survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) compared with conventional bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilation. ⋯ In this nationwide real-world data analysis of OHCA, the 30-day neurologically favorable survival did not differ between prehospital AAM and BVM after adjustment for clinical characteristics.