[SMUR or not SMUR?].

The Swiss rescue system is based on a collaboration of two trades (ambulance and emergency physician). Paramedic provide independent support for most urgent medical situations under the cover of three years of training and a medical delegation. For more complex situations, the prehospital physician retains his place (triage, severe trauma, airway management, respiratory distress, medico-legal emergencies, specialized procedures or exceptional situations).

[Out-of-hospital tracheal intubation and alternatives in the prehospital setting].

The purpose of this article is to review the main airway devices available to the emergency physician in a prehospital setting. Since the risk of difficult intubation is increased under pre-hospital conditions; the emergency physician should be aware of alternatives to direct tracheal intubation such as supraglottic devices, video laryngoscopes and cricothyroidotomy. These different techniques and devices must be integrated into a strategy for the management of the upper airway.

Comparison of everolimus- and biolimus-eluting coronary stents with everolimus-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffolds: Two-year clinical outcomes of the EVERBIO II trial.

Background: Data from randomized controlled trials have shown that the ABSORB BVS is non-inferior to Cobalt Chromium everolimus-eluting stents at 2years.

Methods & Results: The EVERBIO II trial (Comparison of Everolimus- and Biolimus-Eluting Coronary Stents with Everolimus-Eluting Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold) is a single-center, assessor-blind, randomized controlled trial enrolling 240 patients with an allocation ration of 1:1:1 conducted at University and Hospital Fribourg, Switzerland. The studied devices were an everolimus-eluting persistent polymer stent (EES), a biolimus-eluting stent with bioabsorbable polymer (BES) and a fully bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS).