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In patients admitted to ICU does a restrictive vs. liberal blood transfusion strategy alter mortality?
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A collection of TBL summaries relevant to Intensive Care Medicine
ARMA
In patients with Acute Lung Injury (ALI) or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), does ventilation with lower tidal volumes compared with traditional higher tidal volumes reduce death or ventilator-free days?
Continue reading »Kress
In medical patients who are intubated, mechanically ventilated and sedated by a continuous infusion of drugs, do daily sedative interruptions reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation or length of stay?
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Does the early application of prone positioning improve mortality in severe ARDS?
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Does fluid resuscitation with albumin, compared to saline, affect mortality for patients in the ICU?
Continue reading »Davies
Does early nasojejunal feeding improve the delivery of enteral nutrition in comparison to nasogastric nutrition in critically ill patients experiencing poor gastric motility?
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In adults who suffer cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation, does mild hypothermia compared with standard normothermia improve neurological outcome at 6 months?
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In patients who are mechanically ventilated and sedated with opioids and / or benzodiazepines, do daily sedative interruptions reduce the duration until extubation?
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In patients with early ARDS, does continuous methylprednisolone compared to placebo reduce lung injury scores within 7 days?
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In adults that suffer an out-of-hospitals (OOH) cardiac arrest of presumed cardiac cause, does induced therapeutic hypothermia targeting 36°C compared to 33°C reduce mortality or reduce neurological deficit?
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