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In mechanically ventilated adult patients with a high risk of prolonged ventilation, does early tracheostomy compared with late tracheostomy reduce mortality at 30 days?
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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.
Bouderka
Does early tracheostomy reduce duration of mechanical ventilation and mortality in comparison with prolonged intubation in patients with head injury?
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In patients with severe sepsis or septic shock, is the timing of first administration of antibiotics associated with the in-hospital mortality rate?
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Does a delay in antibiotic administration in patients with septic shock result in an increased mortality?
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Does intravenous or nebulised MgSO4 improve symptoms of breathlessness and reduce the need for hospital admission in adults with severe acute asthma?
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In adult patients undergoing mechanical ventilation, does a strategy involving no continuous sedation, compared to a strategy of continuous sedation by infusion with a daily interruption, reduce the number of days of mechanical ventilation in the first 4 weeks?
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In patients with septic shock, is mortality affected by the use of adrenaline (epinephrine) alone in comparison to noradrenaline ± dobutamine?
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Is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) a safe, efficacious and cost-effective treatment compared with conventional ventilation for the management of severe adult respiratory failure?
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In patients with PE, does the addition of thrombolysis to anticoagulation, compared with anticoagulation alone, affect mortality and bleeding complications?
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In patients with submassive PE, does the use of tenecteplase + heparin, compared to heparin alone, improve patient orientated outcomes?
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