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SICS EBM Update No.3 July 2005
Welcome to the Scottish
Intensive Care Societies Evidence-Based Medicine Groups Third Update. The last 6
months have been a productive one. One revised review and 10 new CATs. Also news
of website updates:
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Updated Review:
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Tidal volume
limitation and PEEP in Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome. By Dr Brian Cuthbertson
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New Critically
Appraised Papers:
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Kress JP,
et al. Daily interruption of sedative infusions in critically ill patients
undergoing mechanical ventilation. NEJM 2000; 342: 1471-1477. By Tim Geary
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Kress JP,
et al. The long term psychological effects of daily sedative interruptions on
critically ill patients. AJRCCM 2003; 168: 1457- 1461. By Tim Geary.
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Effect of
Glucose-Insulin-Potassium Infusion on Mortality in Patients With Acute
ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction The CREATE-ECLA Randomized Controlled
Trial. JAMA. 2005;293:437-446. By Paul McConnell.
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Outcome benefit of intensive insulin therapy in the critically ill: Insulin dose
versus glycemic control. Crit Care Med 2003; Vol 31(2): 359-366. By Ryan
Moffat.
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M Holzer
et al.: Hypothermia for neuroprotection after cardiac arrest: Systematic review
and individual patient data meta-analysis, Critical Care Medicine 2005, Vol.33:
414-418. By Anja Beilharz.
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Phua J, et al.
Noninvasive ventilation in hypercapnic acute respiratory failure due to chronic
abstructive pulmonary disease vs. other conditions: effectiveness and predictors
of failure. Int Care Med 2005; 31:533-539. By Alice Murray.
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Derek C Angus,
et al. The effect of drotrecogin alfa (activated) on long-term survival
after severe sepsis. Crit Care Med 2004;Vol 32; No 11: 2199-2206. By
Caroline Hawe.
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Plant PK. Owen JL.
Elliott MW. Early use of non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on general respiratory wards: a
multicentre randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2000 355(9219):1931-5.
By Ewan Jack.
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Mayer SA, et
al. Recombinant Activated Factor VII for Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage. NEJM
2005: 352(8); 777 – 785. By Ewan Jack.
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Spragg RG,
et al, Effect of Recombinant Surfactant Protein C- based Surfactant on the Acute
Respiratory Distress Syndrome Engl J Med 2004; 351:884-92. By Basu
Bhadrajkumar.
Next Update:
Regards,
Chris Cairns
Chair, SICS EBMG
sicsebm@btinternet.com
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