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In adults suffering out-of-hospital non-traumatic cardiac arrest, does a strategy of airway management initially with laryngeal tube (LT) compared to endotracheal intubation (ETI) reduce mortality at 72 hours?
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In adults suffering out-of-hospital non-traumatic cardiac arrest, does a strategy of airway management initially with laryngeal tube (LT) compared to endotracheal intubation (ETI) reduce mortality at 72 hours?
Continue reading »In adult patients with non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does a supraglottic airway device compared with tracheal intubation as the initial advanced airway management strategy, improve functional neurological outcome?
Continue reading »In adult patients post out of hospital cardiac arrest does a continuous or on demand application of neuromuscular blockade (NMB) reduce the number of shivering episodes during targeted temperature management (TTM)?
Continue reading »In patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest, does Shenfu (a traditional Chinese
medicine), improve 28 day mortality?
In adults with out of hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) due to a presumed cardiac cause, who are post ‘return of spontaneous circulation’ (ROSC), does cooling to 33°C for 48 hours, compared with 24 hours, improve improved neurological outcomes at 6 months?
Continue reading »In adult patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest, is tracheal intubation associated with survival to hospital discharge?
Continue reading »In adult patients with nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (pVT), does amiodarone or lidocaine along with standard care result in improved survival and more favourable neurological outcome compared with placebo?
Continue reading »In adult patients that are in cardiac arrest, do uninterrupted chest compressions compared to chest compressions interrupted for manual ventilation improve survival, neurological recovery or the rate of adverse events?
Continue reading »In children suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does hypothermia compared to normothermia increase survival with a good neurobehavioural outcome?
Continue reading »Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock (IABP-SHOCK II): final 12 month results of a randomised, open-label trial IABP-SHOCK II Trial Investigators.NEJM;2012,367(14)1287-96, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1208410 Clinical Question In patients with acute MI and cardiogenic shock, does intraaortic balloon counterpulsation (IABP) vs. medical therapy alone improve mortality? Design Randomised controlled trial Randomisation performed centrally via internet based program […]
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