A compendium of critical appraisals in Intensive Care Medicine research and related specialties
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.
Do observers of simulated family conversations discussing organ donation respond more favourably to the discussion if it contains extra information about the benefits of donation compared to a standard conversation?
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In patients with acute respiratory failure, does early delivery of a standardised ICU and hospital rehabilitation programme improve physical function and reduce hospital length of stay?
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Are there specific ECG characteristics that can differentiate between anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and early repolarisation?
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In adult patients with septic shock, does the addition of vasopressin infusion to a norepinephrine infusion compared to a norepinephrine infusion alone decrease mortality rate at 28 days?
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Does early vasopressin use reduce the risk of kidney failure in patients with septic shock compared with norepinephrine?
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In patients with wide QRS (probably ventricular) tachycardia, does intravenous procainamide compared with intravenous amiodarone reduce major adverse cardiac events?
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In hypoxic adults presenting to the emergency department, does nasal high-flow oxygen compared to standard oxygen therapy reduce the need for advanced respiratory support?
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In patients with acute intracerebral haemorrhage and who are hypertensive, does rapid lowering of systolic blood pressure compared to standard therapy improve patient outcomes ?
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In patients with severe trauma does immediate total body CT scanning compared with standard workup with selective CT scanning, reduce hospital mortality?
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In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis at 1 or 2 adjacent vertebral levels, with or without spondylolisthesis, what is the efficacy of decompression surgery compared with decompression and fusion surgery, on functional outcome assessed 2 years post-operatively?
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