Vasopressin Use in the Resuscitation of Cardiac Arrest Patients
04 Aug
Posted by SCCM as Concise Critical Appraisal
Vasopressin is recommended for cardiac arrest according to current American Heart Association guidelines. In a pre-released article in Resuscitation, Mentzelopoulos et al performed a meta-analysis to determine whether the cumulative evidence supports or refutes outcomes benefits for vasopressin when used for adult cardiac arrest. After a limited search involving PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane registry, [...]
Early Versus Late Parenteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Adults
20 Jul
Posted by SCCM as Concise Critical Appraisal
In an online article of The New England Journal of Medicine, Casaer et al present data from a prospective, randomized, controlled, parallel-group, multicenter trial conducted in Belgium. The Early Parenteral Nutrition Completing Enteral Nutrition in Adult Critically Ill Patients (EPaNIC) investigators sought to assess outcomes between patients treated with parenteral nutrition (PN) within 2 days [...]
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