A standard comparison of esophageal obturator airway and endotracheal tube ventilation in cardiac arrest
✍ Scribed by Yvonne Hammargren; Joseph E Clinton; Ernest Ruiz
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 556 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6760
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✦ Synopsis
A comparison of esophageal obturator airway ® (EOA ®) and endotracheal tube (ET) ventilation was performed while standardizing the method of oxygen delivery and assuring true sampling of arterial blood. Forty-eight victims of prehospital cardiac arrest had an arterial blood gas drawn in the emergency department while being ventilated with an EOA. Endotracheal intubation was performed immediately thereafter and another blood gas was drawn. All patients without a pulse were sampled through an arterial line placed by cutdown. Patients who developed a pulse during the resuscitation were sampled percutaneously or by arterial line. Patients with a perfusing rhythm (N= 19) had the following mean EOA blood gas values: pH,