Emergency Evidence Updates – October 2024
What’s new in the Critical Care literature – monthly updates
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TRAIN – Transfusion Strategies in Acute Brain Injured Patients
Restrictive vs Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Acute Brain Injury @fabio_taccone. JAMA. 2024. PMID: 39382241 Clinical Question In patients with acute brain injury, does a liberal, compared to a restrictive strategy of blood transfusion, improve neurological outcomes at 180 days? Background The TRICC study, published over 20 years go, led to the widespread adoption of restrictive thresholds for blood […]
Continue reading »TIGHT K: Potassium Supplementation and Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery
Potassium Supplementation and Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery: The TIGHT K Randomized Clinical Trial O’Brien. JAMA 2024; 332:979 – 988. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.17888 Clinical Question In adult patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) is supplementing potassium when serum concentration is ≤ 3.5 mEq/L non-inferior to supplementation when serum concentration is ≤ 4.5 mEq/L to reduce the frequency of new […]
Continue reading »Critical Care Evidence Updates – August 2024
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Continue reading »Emergency Evidence Updates – August 2024
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Continue reading »Critical Care Evidence Updates – July 2024
What’s new in the Critical Care literature – monthly updates
Continue reading »Emergency Evidence Updates – July 2024
What’s new in the Critical Care literature – monthly updates
Continue reading »BLING III – Continuous vs Intermittent Antibiotics
In critically ill adult patients with presumed sepsis, does the administration of β-lactam antibiotics via a continuous infusion compared to an intermittent infusion reduce 90-day mortality?
Continue reading »PREOXI Trial – Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation
In critically ill patients undergoing tracheal intubation does pre-oxygenation with non-invasive ventilation compared with pre-oxygenation with an oxygen mask reduce the incidence of hypoxemia during intubation?
Continue reading »Critical Care Evidence Updates – June 2024
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