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MACMAN

7 April 2017 Segun Olusanya Intensive Care Medicine 4 comments

In intensive care patients requiring orotracheal intubation, does video laryngoscopy (VL) compared to the Macintosh direct laryngoscope (DL) increase the frequency of first pass intubation?

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OXYGEN-ICU

21 October 2016 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine 6 comments

In critically ill adults, does conservative oxygen therapy compared to liberal oxygen therapy reduce mortality?

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LeoPARDS

7 October 2016 Steve Mathieu Intensive Care Medicine 6 comments

In adult patients who have sepsis, does levosimendan reduce the incidence and severity of acute organ dysfunction compared with placebo?

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RESCUEicp

8 September 2016 Steve Mathieu Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 10 comments

In patients with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and refractory intracranial hypertension, does decompressive craniectomy, result in more favourable mortality and neurological outcomes at 6 months, compared with barbiturate coma and continued medical management?

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VANISH Trial

5 August 2016 Steve Mathieu Intensive Care Medicine 4 comments

Does early vasopressin use reduce the risk of kidney failure in patients with septic shock compared with norepinephrine?

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REACT 2

8 July 2016 David Slessor Emergency Medicine 11 comments

In patients with severe trauma does immediate total body CT scanning compared with standard workup with selective CT scanning, reduce hospital mortality?

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ELAIN

17 June 2016 Segun Olusanya Intensive Care Medicine 4 comments

In adult patients on ICU, does early initiation of RRT compared to delayed initiation of RRT reduce mortality at 90 days?

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AKIKI

10 June 2016 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine 9 comments

In critically ill patients with acute kidney injury does early compared with delayed initiation of renal replacement therapy (RRT) improve mortality at 60 days?

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ALPS

5 April 2016 Celia Bradford Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries 5 comments

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?

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Hernández

17 March 2016 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine 7 comments

In patients that are low risk for re-intubation does high flow nasal oxygen compared with conventional oxygen therapy reduce re-intubation within 7

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