Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Aug 2021
Use and Outcome of Empiric Echinocandins in Critically Ill Patients.
Echinocandins are recommended as a first-line empiric treatment for fungal infections of patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) with critical illness. The primary aim of the study was to compare outcomes among ICU patients treated with empiric anidulafungin (ANI), caspofungin (CASPO), or micafungin (MICA). ⋯ Our results show that ICU, hospital stay, and mortality (hospital, 30-day and 1-year) did not differ among patients with empiric anidulafungin, caspofungin, or micafungin treatment in a mixed adult ICU.
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Aug 2021
Review Meta AnalysisMeta-analyses of gabapentinoids for pain management after knee arthroplasty - a caveat emptor? A narrative review.
The use of gabapentinoids for perioperative pain management after total knee arthroplasty has been the subject of nine systematic reviews and meta-analyses. A critical analysis of the clinical aspects of the methodology of these publications shows major flaws which limit the interpretation for the recommended use of perioperative gabapentinoids in pain management for unilateral primary total knee arthroplasty. Consequently, readers and authors of systematic reviews and meta-analyses should critically assess the clinical aspects of the included studies.
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Aug 2021
ReviewProphylactic platelet transfusions in hospitalised patients with thrombocytopenia - protocol for a systematic review with meta-analysis.
Prophylactic platelet transfusions are frequently used to prevent bleeding in hospitalised patients with thrombocytopenia. Recommendations regarding the use of prophylactic platelet transfusions in non-haematological patients are based on extrapolations, observational studies, and expert opinions, and transfusion with platelets has been associated with adverse effects. We aim to assess the overall benefits and harms of prophylactic platelet transfusions in hospitalised patients with thrombocytopenia. ⋯ The proposed systematic review will provide an overview of the certainty of evidence for the benefits and harms of prophylactic platelet transfusion in hospitalised patients with thrombocytopenia.
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Aug 2021
ReviewPatient-important outcomes other than mortality in recent ICU trials: Protocol for a scoping review.
Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) conducted in intensive care units (ICUs) frequently focus on all-cause mortality, but other patient-important outcomes are increasingly used and recommended. Their use, however, is not straightforward: choices and definitions, operationalisation of death, handling of missing data, choice of effect measures, and statistical analyses for these outcomes vary greatly. ⋯ The outlined scoping review will provide an overview of choices, definitions and handling of patient-important outcomes other than mortality in contemporary RCTs conducted in adult ICU patients. This may guide discussions with patients and relatives, the design of future RCTs, and research on optimal outcome choices and handling.