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.

BRIDGE Study

21 August 2015 Steve Mathieu Peri-operative Medicine One comment

In elective surgical patients with atrial fibrillation who are suspending their normal warfarin peri-operatively, does no bridging anticoagulation compared to bridging anticoagulation with dalteparin increase the incidence of thromboembolism or reduce the incidence of major bleeding?

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?

STOP-IT

24 July 2015 John Kiely Peri-operative Medicine Leave a comment

In patients with intraabdominal sepsis and who have received adequate source control, does a fixed short course of antibiotics result in similar treatment success compared to a longer duration of antibiotic therapy?

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 […]