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To compare outcomes for prehospital cardiac arrest patients whose airways are managed with endotracheal intubation or insertion of a supraglottic airway device, researchers performed a literature review of studies published from 1980 to 2013. Five studies involving a total of 303,348 patients (range of mean ages, 55 to 75) were included in the final analysis.
Rates of return of spontaneous circulation were higher with endotracheal intubation in three of the five studies (odd ratios, 1.6 to 1.8). Rates of survival to hospital admission did not differ significantly between groups in the three studies that reported this outcome; similarly, in the two studies that reported rates of survival to discharge there were no significant differences betw…