Respiratory care
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Review Meta Analysis
BETA-2-AGONIST FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE LUNG INJURY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS.
The use of β2 agonist as an intervention for acute lung injury (ALI) and ARDS patients is controversial, so we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the published randomized controlled trials of using β2 agonists to improve outcomes (mortality and ventilator free days) among patients with ALI/ARDS. ⋯ In subjects with ALI/ARDS, β2 agonists were not only nonbeneficial in improving the survival, but were harmful and increased morbidity (reduced organ-failure-free days and ventilator-free days). The current evidence discourages the use of β2 agonist in ALI/ARDS patients. (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews, http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero, 2012:CRD42012002616.).