Effect of Out-of-Hospital Pediatric Endotracheal Intubation on survival and neurological outcome

We have recently been asked to review an article published in the JAMA in 2000 concerning the utilization of endotracheal intubation versus bag-valve mask oxygenation in the pre-hospital emergency setting by Paramedics. The article entitled “Effect of Out-of-Hospital Pediatric Endotracheal Intubation on Survival and Neurological Outcome: A Controlled Clinical Trial” is anything but a truly “Controlled Clinical Trial” [1].