ArticleScandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine2025
Endotracheal intubation during cardiac arrest by critical care paramedics: a service evaluation of success rates following structured education.
Article in Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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.
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.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- [Videolaryngoscopic endotracheal intubation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from the perspective of paramedics : Training requirements and subjective procedural confidence-results of an anonymous cross-sectional survey].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundEndotracheal intubation is an important pre-hospital intervention in critically ill patients. However, it can be a challenging skill, and previous studies have highlighted varying success rates. The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) have set a clear target of a greater than 95% success rate within two attempts, for all clinicians who provide endotracheal intubation during cardiac arrest. This service evaluation looks to explore the impact of training and education on the intubation performance of critical care paramedics.
methodsRetrospective data was collected from a single service over a six year period, from April 2019 to December 2024. During that time period, a number of educational or organisational interventions were introduced, with the aim of improving endotracheal intubation success rates. Data from all intubation attempts for patients in cardiac arrest by critical-care paramedics working with the Devon Air Ambulance Trust were recorded. The primary outcome was the rate of success of endotracheal intubation within two attempts. Secondary outcomes included the rate of first-pass success and the number of patients who had a failed first intubation attempt and did not receive a subsequent attempt. A Chi-squared statistical test was used to judge the significance of change between data from the years 2019 and 2024.
results390 patients were included and reviewed. Between 2019 and 2024, success rates within two attempts improved by 7.9% points (χ
conclusionsImplementation of a training and education programme was associated with a significant improvement in endotracheal intubation success rates within the service. With dedicated training, critical care paramedics demonstrate safe and effective endotracheal intubation for patients in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, meeting the ERC recommendations of a greater than 95% success rate within two attempts at intubation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.