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.

DahLIA

1 April 2016 Steve Mathieu Intensive Care Medicine 4 comments

Is Dexmedetomidone effective in reducing the incidence of agitated delirium and days on a ventilator?

Kacmarek

24 March 2016 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine 3 comments

In patients with ARDS does open-lung ventilation compared with ARDSnet ventilation improve 60 day mortality?

Hernández

17 March 2016 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine 7 comments

In patients that are low risk for re-intubation does high flow nasal oxygen compared with conventional oxygen therapy reduce re-intubation within 7

TRACHUS

11 March 2016 Phil McGlone Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

Is ultrasound guided percutaneous tracheostomy (PCT) a non-inferior technique compared with bronchoscopy guided PCT ?

Maltese

4 March 2016 Celia Bradford Intensive Care Medicine One comment

In Intensive care doctors what is the impact of night shift work on cognitive performance?

Sakr

26 February 2016 Gary Misselbrook Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients admitted to the ICU do overweight/obese patients compared with normal weight patients have a greater risk of morbidity and mortality?

DIABOLO

19 February 2016 Steve Mathieu Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

Does acetazolamide reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and metabolic alkalosis?

STITCH (trauma)

12 February 2016 Mike Stewart Intensive Care Medicine One comment

In patients with traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage (TICH), does early surgery (haematoma evacuation within 12 h of randomisation) compared with initial conservative management reduce major disability and death at 6 months after injury?