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In paediatric patients with severe febrile illnesses, in a resource limited setting, do fluid boluses with albumin vs. saline vs. no fluid boluses affect mortality?
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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.
EUSOS
What is the clinical outcome of patients after major non-cardiac surgery in Europe?
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In patients with severe pancreatitis, does early enteral feeding compared with on-demand feeding reduce death or major infection?
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In older patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction does early hemicraniectomy, compared with standard care, improve survival without severe disability?
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In patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, does high-flow oxygen through nasal cannula, compared with standard oxygen delivered through a facemask or non-invasive positive-pressure ventilation, prevent intubation?
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In pre-hospital trauma patients undergoing rapid sequence intubation (RSI), does fentanyl-ketamine-rocuronium induction compared to etomidate-suxamethonium induction affect intubation success or haemodynamic responses to laryngoscopy?
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In adult patients with alcoholic hepatitis, does prednisolone and / or pentoxifylline compared to placebo reduce mortality?
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In patients with septic shock, what is the relationship between appropriateness of initial empiric antimicrobial therapy and survival?
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Does High-flow therapy by nasal cannula (HFNC) improve the efficiency of preoxygenation before intubation compared with a high fraction-inspired oxygen facial mask (HFFM)
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In adult patients with sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock, is a single dose of etomidate for induction of anaesthesia, compared with any other induction, associated with a difference in mortality?
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