Response to: Best practice advice on pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia & advanced airway management.

The European HEMS and Air ambulance Committee's Medical working group recently published Best Practice advice on pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia and advanced airway management. We believe that this initiative is important. In our opinion however, the competence requirements recommended by the authors do not meet the standards that we should aim for in HEMS services.

Inhaled nitric oxide might be a contributing tool for successful resuscitation of cardiac arrest related to pulmonary hypertension.

We describe a case where inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) was successfully initiated during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a younger patient with cardiac arrest related to pulmonary hypertension after disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) postpartum bleeding and hysterectomy. This case illustrates that iNO might be a potential lifesaving tool for resuscitation of patients with cardiac arrest related to pulmonary hypertension, for whom most other resuscitation strategies often are futile.

Long-Term Outcomes After ICU Admission Triage in Octogenarians.

Objective: To describe ICU admission triage and outcomes in octogenarians.

Design: Multicenter prospective observational study.

Setting: Three nonuniversity hospitals and three university hospitals in Norway.