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.

TRUST

20 February 2015 David Slessor Emergency Medicine One comment

In patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) does a novel accelerated diagnostic protocol (ADP) identify low risk patients suitable for discharge after a single high-sensitivity troponin T (hs-cTnT)?

PROPPR

13 February 2015 Adrian Wong Emergency Medicine One comment

In patients with severe trauma and predicted to require massive transfusion, does the use of a transfusion protocol using a 1:1:1 ratio of plasma to platelets to red blood cells (RBCs) compared to 1:1:2 improve mortality?

RESTORE

6 February 2015 Steve Mathieu Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

Does a nurse-implemented, goal-directed sedation protocol result in fewer ventilator days in children with acute respiratory failure?

VITdAL-ICU

30 January 2015 Duncan Chambler Intensive Care Medicine One comment

In critically ill patients with low serum vitamin D levels, does high-dose vitamin D supplementation compared with placebo reduce hospital length of stay?

ACURASYS

23 January 2015 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine One comment

In patients with moderate-severe ARDS does the early use of a neuromuscular blocking agent improve mortality?

CHEST

16 January 2015 Duncan Chambler Intensive Care Medicine 4 comments

In critically ill patients requiring fluid resuscitation, does 6% hydroxyethyl starch (6% HES) compared to 0.9% sodium chloride (Saline) reduce mortality at 90 days?

CHEER

9 January 2015 Steve Mathieu Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients who are in refractory cardiac arrest, does protocolised management involving mechanical CPR, Hypothermia, ECMO and early reperfusion improve survival rate?