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Critical Insight

Critical Insight is an on-line journal club for Intensivists in the East Midlands (UK). It exists to promote critical analysis and discussion of recent evidence within the field of intensive care medicine.

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  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Mar 15, 10 03:28AM
    Dopamine has been the vasopressor of choice in septic patients in continental europe historically, although this may be changing. Dopamine has theoretically beneficial effects in maintaining splancnic and...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Feb 01, 10 07:44AM
    A fascinating paper very well reviewed by Dr. James Dawson at the QMC journal club; The bispectral index and suppression ratio are very early predictors of neurological outcome during therapeutic hypo thermia...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Jan 24, 10 01:29PM
    The ANZICS group appear to have done it again; that is taken a single centre trial done in Europe, repeated it in a sensible and pragmatic way but in a much larger, adequately powered multi centre set ting...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Nov 18, 09 03:49AM
    Critical Insight has been included as a founding member of Medpedia’s News & Analysis website. Medpedia is an exciting project to build a first class medical resource on the internet using w orld...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Sep 13, 09 10:00PM
    2 recent articles highlight the potential benefit of an often overlooked induction agent in critically ill patients. Etomidate versus ketamine for rapid sequence intubation in acutely ill patient s...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Sep 07, 09 10:00PM
    Two excellent recent articles from local clinicians that had to be featured on Critical Insight. An upcoming post will include a review article on Ketamine in ICU, but first… Should we really b e...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Sep 03, 09 01:17PM
    A recent Cochrane review of the use of steroids to prevent post extubation stridor in adults and children has been comprehensively reviewed by the McMaster EBM unit for BMJ Evidence. The text below is from...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Jun 07, 09 10:00PM
    PIRO score for community-acquired pneumonia: A new prediction rule for assessment of severity in intensive care unit patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Lisboa et al. Critical Care Medicine. 3 7...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Jun 02, 09 02:41AM
    Meta-analyses of the effects of dopexamine in major surgery: do all roads lead to Rome? J. J. Pandit. Anaesthesia. 64;6:585-8. (Editorial) Meta-analyses of the effect of dopexamine on hospital mortali ty...
  • By danharvey of Critical Insight
    Mar 12, 09 04:48AM
    Rapidly Degradable Hydroxyethyl Starch Solutions Impair Blood Coagulation After Cardiac Surgery:A Prospective Randomized Trial. Schramko, A. A et al. Anesth Analg 2009;108:30-6 Thanks to Lynsey Davies amp...
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