Category: Intensive Care Medicine

A collection of TBL summaries relevant to Intensive Care Medicine

THAPCA-OH

In children suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does hypothermia compared to normothermia increase survival with a good neurobehavioural outcome?

Niemann

14 August 2015 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In organ donors, following diagnosis of brainstem death, does therapeutic hypothermia decrease delayed graft function in kidney recipients?

PermiT

7 August 2015 Duncan Chambler Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In critically ill adults, does restriction of non-protein calories (permissive underfeeding) compared to standard feeding reduce mortality at 90 days?

Freemantle

31 July 2015 Steve Mathieu Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-operative Medicine One comment

Do patients admitted to English NHS hospitals on weekend days, compared to those admitted during week days, have an increased 30-day mortality?

ABLE

17 July 2015 Steve Mathieu Intensive Care Medicine One comment

In critically ill patients requiring blood, does transfusion with “fresh” RBC’s (stored for 8 days or less) compared with standard issue RBCs (stored 2-42 days) reduce 90 day mortality?

SHOCK 2

10 July 2015 David Slessor Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock (IABP-SHOCK II): final 12 month results of a randomised, open-label trial IABP-SHOCK II Trial Investigators.NEJM;2012,367(14)1287-96, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1208410 Clinical Question In patients with acute MI and cardiogenic shock, does intraaortic balloon counterpulsation (IABP) vs. medical therapy alone improve mortality? Design Randomised controlled trial Randomisation performed centrally via internet based program […]