Prehospital Advanced Life Support: Optimizing airway management and ventilation during resuscitation and the role of prehospital physicians

In critical patients, like out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, it is essential to provide resuscitation including airway management and ventilation. The combination of unclear events, unclear background of the patient, the complex prehospital setting and the enormous time pressure provide a great challenge for prehospital emergency care providers to perform these critical interventions.