Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 078

Welcome to the 78th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.This edition contains 7 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Anand Swaminathan and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check out the full list of R&R contributorsThis Edition’s R&R Hall of FamerAirway, Anesthesia Gruber E, et al. Basic life support trained nurses ventilate more efficiently with laryngeal mask supreme than with facemask or laryngeal tube suction-disposable–a prospective, randomized clinical trial. Resuscitation 2014;85(4):499-502. PMID: 24440666.This operating theater study randomized nurses to bag mask ventilation, laryngeal tube, and LMA. Ventilation was better with the LMA than with the laryngeal tube, both were greatly superior to bag mask ventilation. This result is concordant with most of the literature on this topic. LMA ventilation is both easier to perform and more effective than bag mask ventilation, especially in providers who do not perform bag mask ventilation frequently (e.g. m...
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