Success and Complication Rates with Prehospital Placement of an Esophageal-Tracheal Combitube as a Rescue Airway

Abstract

Despite a low ROSC rate, the complication and success rates of ETC are acceptable for a rescue airway device. Tracheal placement of the Combitube is uncommon, but requires fail-safe discrimination. Similar to previous reports, the success ratio for ETT was greater than for the ETC.