MEDEST

Chest Compressions

• Blood flow forward into the artery and backward into the vein during chest compression in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Open Access

• Association between left ventricular outflow tract opening and successful resuscitation after cardiac arrest

Airway Management 

• Regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration during cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with a laryngeal tube: A pilot crossover human cadaver study. Open Access.

• Pre-hospital advanced airway management for adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: nationwide cohort study. Open Access

• Confirmed cardiac output on emergency medical services arrival as confounding by indication: an observational study of prehospital airway management in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Open Access

• Advanced airway management in out of hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Pulse Check

• The POCUS pulse check: A randomized controlled crossover study comparing pulse detection by palpation versus by point-of-care Ultrasoundound

• A series of case studies on detection of spontaneous pulse by photoplethysmography in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Open Access

Cath Lab

• The Evolving Role of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in the Management of Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Open Access

• Coronary Angiography after Cardiac Arrest without ST-Segment Elevation

EtCO2

• End-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring and load band device for mechanical cardio-pulmonary resuscitation: Never trust the numbers, believe at the curves

Epinephrine

• The effects of adrenaline in out of hospital cardiac arrest with shockable and non-shockable rhythms: Findings from the PACA and PARAMEDIC-2 randomised controlled trials. Open Access

• #Epi: There is no place for the use of intravenous epinephrine as a standard component of cardiac arrest resuscitation care. Open Access

• Epinephrine during resuscitation of traumatic cardiac arrest and increased mortality: a post hoc analysis of prospective observational study. Open Access

• The Association of the Average Epinephrine Dosing Interval and Survival With Favorable Neurologic Status at Hospital Discharge in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Prehospital Critical Care

• The effect of prehospital critical care on survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A prospective observational study. Open Access

• Cost-effectiveness of advanced life support and prehospital critical care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in England: a decision analysis model. Open Access

Defibrillation

• Decreasing time to first shock: Routine application of defibrillation pads in prehospital STEMI

• Shorter defibrillation interval promotes successful defibrillation and resuscitation outcomes

• An investigation of inter-shock timing and electrode placement for double-sequential defibrillation

Extracorporeal Life Support

• Extracorporeal Life Support in the Emergency Department: A Narrative Review for the Emergency Physician

• Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for massive pulmonary embolism in a “hybrid emergency room”. Open Access

• Comparison of extracorporeal and conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a retrospective propensity score matched study. Open Access

The rest

• Stress and decision-making in resuscitation: A systematic review. Open Access

• CaRdiac Arrest Survival Score (CRASS) — A tool to predict good neurological outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

• Prehospital determinants of successful resuscitation after traumatic and non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Open Access

• Is point-of-care ultrasound a reliable predictor of outcome during atraumatic, non-shockable cardiac arrest? A systematic review and meta-analysis from the SHoC Investigators

• European Stroke Organisation (ESO) – European Society for Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT) Guidelines on Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke

• 2019 Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology Guidelines on the Acute Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Focused Update on Regionalization and Reperfusion

• GINA. Global Initiative  for Asthma. 2019 Guidelines 

• Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: 2019 Consensus and Guidelines-Based Algorithm for First and Second Tier Therapies

• Evidence-Based Guidelines for EMS Administration of Naloxone

• Experts’ guidelines of intubation and extubation of the ICU patient of French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR) and French-speaking Intensive Care Society (SRLF)

• New clinical guidelines on the spinal stabilisation of adult trauma patients – consensus and evidence based

• Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: 2019 Update to the 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke

• 2019 American Heart Association Focused Update on Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support: Use of Advanced Airways, Vasopressors, and Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation During Cardiac Arrest

• 2019 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with supraventricular tachycardia

• WSES consensus conference guidelines:monitoring and management of severe adult traumatic brain injury patients with polytrauma in the first 24 hours

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Spinal Cord Protection

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Out-of-Hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia: 2019 Update

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Heat Illness: 2019 Update

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness: 2019 Update

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Frostbite: 2019 Update

• The 2019 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism

• Difficult Airway Society guidelines for awake tracheal intubation (ATI) in adults

• Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official Clinical Practice Guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America

• 2019 WSES guidelines for the management of severe acute pancreatitis

February

• Why are bleeding trauma patients still dying?. Open Access

March

• Potentially preventable trauma deaths: A retrospective review. Open Access

• Clearing the cervical spine in patients with distracting injuries: An AAST multi-institutional trial

May

• Effects of 20-degree spinal immobilization on respiratory functions in otherwise healthy volunteers with android-type obesity

June

• Prehospital prediction of severe injury in road traffic injuries: A multicenter cross-sectional study. Open Access

July

• Management of Burns

• Influence of prehospital physician presence on survival after severe trauma: Systematic review and meta-analysis

September

• Prehospital Protocols Reducing Long Spinal Board Use Are Not Associated with a Change in Incidence of Spinal Cord Injury

October

• Survival after pre-hospital emergency clamshell thoracotomy for blunt cardiac rupture. Open Access

• Prehospital Airway Management in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

• Variation in the practice of tracheal intubation in Europe after traumatic brain injury: a prospective cohort study. Open Access

• Effects of tranexamic acid on death, disability, vascular occlusive events and other morbidities in patients with acute traumatic brain injury (CRASH-3): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Open Access

December

• A review of transfusion- and trauma-induced hypocalcemia. Is it time to change the lethal triad to the lethal diamond?

January

• The evaluation of a better intubation strategy when only the epiglottis is visible:a randomized, cross-over mannequin study

• Rapid sequence induction (RSI) in trauma patients: Insights from healthcare providers. Open access. 

February

• Shock Index as a Predictor of Post-Intubation Hypotension and Cardiac Arrest; A Review of the Current Evidence. Open Access

• Emergency Department Intubation Success With Succinylcholine Versus Rocuronium: A National Emergency Airway Registry Study. Open Access

• Will This Patient Be Difficult to Intubate? The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review

• Bag-Mask Ventilation during Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults

March

• Use of End Tidal Oxygen Monitoring to Assess Preoxygenation During Rapid Sequence Intubation in the Emergency Department

April

• Outcomes in video laryngoscopy studies from 2007 to 2017: systematic review and analysis of primary and secondary endpoints for a core set of outcomes in video laryngoscopy research. Open Access

May

• Effect of Pre-Hospital Intubation in Patients withSevere Traumatic Brain Injury on Outcome: A Prospective Cohort Study. Open Access

• The HEAVEN criteria predict laryngoscopic view and intubation success for both direct and video laryngoscopy: a cohort analysis. Open Access

• Requirement for urgent tracheal intubation after traumatic injury: a retrospective analysis of 11,010 patients in the Trauma Audit Research Network database

June

• Videolaryngoscopy in critically ill patients. Open Access

July

• Recent advances in laryngoscopy in adults. Open Access

August

• Percutaneous vs surgical emergency cricothyroidotomy: An experimental randomized crossover study on an animal‐larynx model. Open Access

September

• Intubation by Emergency Physicians: How Often Is Enough?

• Is the Mallampati Score Useful for Emergency Department Airway Management for Procedural Sedation?. Open Access

• Airway physical examination tests for detection of difficult airway management in apparently normal adult patients. Open Access

October

• Emergency front-of-neck airway: strategies for addressing its urgency

• Variation in the practice of tracheal intubation in Europe after traumatic brain injury: a prospective cohort study. Open Access

• Preoxygenation before intubation in adult patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a network meta-analysis of randomized trials. Open Access

• Effectiveness of Manual Ventilation in Intubated Helicopter Emergency Services−Transported Trauma Patients

November

• Effect of a fluid bolus on cardiovascular collapse among critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation (PrePARE): a randomised controlled trial

• The suction-assisted laryngoscopy assisted decontamination technique toward successful intubation during massive vomiting simulation. Open Access

December

• Effect of Rocuronium vs Succinylcholine on Endotracheal Intubation Success Rate Among Patients Undergoing Out-of-Hospital Rapid Sequence Intubation A Randomized Clinical Trial