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ReviewCritical care (London, England)2015

Prehospital endotracheal intubation: elemental or detrimental?

Paul E Pepe, Lynn P Roppolo, Raymond L Fowler

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In one paragraph

Review in Critical care (London, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. A systematic review of the timing of intubation in patients with traumatic brain injury: pre-hospital versus in-hospital intubation.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2023
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  2. Endotracheal intubation to reduce aspiration events in acutely comatose patients: a systematic review.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2020
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  5. Contemporary issues in pediatric prehospital airway management.Expert review of respiratory medicine · 2026
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  10. The i-gelJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Paul E PepeUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA. Paul.Pepe@UTSW.edu.
Lynn P RoppoloUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA. Lynn.Roppolo@UTSW.edu.
Raymond L FowlerUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA. Snerd@Earthlink.net.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.

Indexed as

Emergency Medical ServicesEmergency Medical TechniciansIntubation, IntratrachealCritical CareEmergency TreatmentHumans

Identifiers

PMID25887350
PMCPMC4440604

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.