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In mechanically ventilated and sedated patients, do Spontaneous Awakening Trials (SAT) in addition to Spontaneous Breathing Trials (SBT) reduce dependence on mechanical ventilation?
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In mechanically ventilated and sedated patients, do Spontaneous Awakening Trials (SAT) in addition to Spontaneous Breathing Trials (SBT) reduce dependence on mechanical ventilation?
Continue reading »In patients who require emergency intubation and are not tolerating pre-oxygenation, does the use of ‘delayed sequence intubation’ (DSI) improve pre-intubation oxygen saturations (SpO2)?
Continue reading »In adult intensive care patients requiring mechanical ventilation, is dexmedetomidine inferior to propofol or midazolam in achieving target sedation level?
Continue reading »In critically ill patients does early treatment with haloperidol decrease the time that survivors spend in delirium or coma?
Continue reading »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?
Continue reading »In medical patients who are intubated, mechanically ventilated and sedated by a continuous infusion of drugs, do daily sedative interruptions reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation or length of stay?
Continue reading »In patients who are mechanically ventilated and sedated with opioids and / or benzodiazepines, do daily sedative interruptions reduce the duration until extubation?
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