Category: Summaries

A category to collect all the summaries, so that they can be used in menus and widgets. Please don’t expand this – “Specialties” and “Special Topics” have been created as a custom category sets for the clinical topics.

MASTERS

29 March 2019 Alex Smith Peri-operative Medicine Leave a comment

In high-risk patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, does epidural analgesia compared with no epidural analgesia reduce mortality and morbidity?

SUPERNOVA

Can extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) safely facilitate ultra-low tidal volume ventilation in patients with moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?

ANDROMEDA-SHOCK

15 March 2019 Aidan Burrell Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 7 comments

In adult patients with early septic shock, does peripheral perfusion-targeted resuscitation, compared to lactate level-targeted resuscitation, improve all cause mortality at 28 days?

TICH-2

8 March 2019 George Walker Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In adults with acute, spontaneous intra-cerebral haemorrhage (ICH), does the administration of tranexamic acid (TXA) compared to a placebo improve functional status at 90 days?

PREVENT

1 March 2019 Fraser Magee Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-operative Medicine Leave a comment

In adult critically ill patients receiving pharmacological thromboprophylaxis, does the use of adjunctive intermittent pneumatic compression devices result in a lower incidence of proximal deep vein thrombosis (DVT)?

iPROVE

22 February 2019 Doug Tunney Peri-operative Medicine Leave a comment

In adult patients undergoing abdominal surgery, with intermediate-to-high-risk of post-operative pulmonary complications, will an individualised perioperative open-lung ventilation strategy (iPROVE), compared with standard protective ventilation, result in fewer post-operative complications during the first 7 days post surgery

CENSER

15 February 2019 Celia Bradford Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 2 comments

In patients with septic shock, does early low-dose norepinephrine compared with standard care increase shock control at six hours?

Pivetta

8 February 2019 Adrian Wong Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with acute dyspnoea, does the addition of lung ultrasound examination compared to standard approach, improve the diagnostic accuracy for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF)?