Papers of April 2021

Knapp’s paper looking at videolaryngoscopy in 12 Swiss HEMS services showed that providers level of experience in airway management  correlated with their level of first pass success?

Knapp demonstrated a higher first pass success when performing airway management indoors or inside an ambulance?

NOPAC’s primary outcome was the need demonstrated for anterior nasal packing of any kind during the index ED attendance?

Aziz’s review of London HEMS cricothyroidotomy use in a 20 year period demonstrated a rate of 0.46% of surgical airways from a case series of 6570 prehospital emergency anaesthetics?