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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Mar 15, 10 03:28AMDopamine 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...
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Feb 01, 10 07:44AMA 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...
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Jan 24, 10 01:29PMThe 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...
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Nov 18, 09 03:49AMCritical 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...
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Sep 13, 09 10:00PM2 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...
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Sep 07, 09 10:00PMTwo 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...
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Sep 03, 09 01:17PMA 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...
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Jun 07, 09 10:00PMPIRO 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...
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Jun 02, 09 02:41AMMeta-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...
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Mar 12, 09 04:48AMRapidly 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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