Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning critical airway and resuscitation strategies, time-sensitive vascular emergencies, and age-specific risk stratification in the emergency department. Let's dive in. We begin with critical updates in airway management and mechanical ventilation, starting in the prehospital arena. A large observational st…

This week's papers:

Mechanical Versus Manual Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Causing Traumatic Cardiothoracic and Abdominal Injuries: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Randomized Trials — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
Drip-and-Ship versus Mothership Model in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Meta-Analysis Stratified by Stroke System Integration — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
Landmark Versus Ultrasound-Guided Identification of the Cricothyroid Membrane: A Randomized, Prospective Trial — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
High-Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy for Apneic Oxygenation during Rapid Sequence Induction in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
The Prevalence of Adverse Events After Prehospital Neuromuscular Blockade-Assisted Airway Management — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026
Age as a Predictor of Mortality, Disability, or Need for Acute Resuscitative Care in Trauma Patients — Academic Emergency Medicine 2026
Time-Critical Diagnosis of Pediatric Testicular Torsion in a Tertiary Pediatric Emergency Setting: Integrating Clinical Predictors With Selective Doppler Ultrasound — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
Evidence for Electrocardiographic Patterns Identifying Acute Coronary Occlusion in Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Scoping Review — Academic Emergency Medicine 2026
Reducing Hyperoxemia in Mechanically Ventilated Emergency Department Patients: A Before-and-After Study — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
Signs of Life During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Retrospective Cohort Study — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026