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In patient with acute, moderate to severe pain in the ED, does ketamine compared with morphine, reduce pain scores by an equivalent amount?
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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.
REVERT
Does a modified Valsalva technique, incorporating a leg lift procedure, result in improved success in converting a supraventricular tachycardia to sinus rhythm in patients presenting to the Emergency Department?
Continue reading »Idarucizumab for Dabigatran Reversal
In patients taking dabigatran, who present with serious bleeding or require urgent surgery/intervention is idarucizumab safe and efficacious for the reversal of anticoagulation?
Continue reading »THAPCA-OH
In children suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does hypothermia compared to normothermia increase survival with a good neurobehavioural outcome?
Continue reading »BRIDGE Study
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?
Continue reading »Niemann
In organ donors, following diagnosis of brainstem death, does therapeutic hypothermia decrease delayed graft function in kidney recipients?
Continue reading »PermiT
In critically ill adults, does restriction of non-protein calories (permissive underfeeding) compared to standard feeding reduce mortality at 90 days?
Continue reading »Freemantle
Do patients admitted to English NHS hospitals on weekend days, compared to those admitted during week days, have an increased 30-day mortality?
Continue reading »STOP-IT
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?
Continue reading »ABLE
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?
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