Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we are covering six notable papers spanning key strategies in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation, prehospital medication administration, and neonatal resuscitation techniques. Let us dive in. We begin with a deep dive into how we support and evaluate bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which remains a cornerstone of survival in…

This week's papers:

Telemedicine-Assisted vs Conventional Telephone Instruction in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: The TACTIC Cluster Randomized Trial — Resuscitation 2026
Optimal Site of Tactile Stimulation during Initial Steps of Neonatal Resuscitation: A Three-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial — Resuscitation 2026
Prehospital epinephrine as a bridge to survival in traumatic cardiac arrest: A nationwide propensity score-matched analysis — The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
Association of Rescue Breathing With Outcomes in Adult Suffocation-Related Cardiac Arrest — Resuscitation 2026
Paramedic-assessed quality of bystander CPR is associated with survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest — Resuscitation 2026
Sex Differences in OHCA Outcomes Are Driven by Arrest Circumstances Rather Than Different EMS Treatment: - a nationwide registry study from Norway 2015-2024 — Resuscitation 2026