[PDF] Top 20 Review Article Efficacy of esmolol for septic shock and sepsis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies

... Severe sepsis and septic shock have achieved high prevalence in millions of people around the world and approximately 25% of these patients would be killed each year ...Severe sepsis and ... See full document

... Currently, choosing the optimum vasopressor agent for patients with septic shock remains an area of controversy [4, 17]. Although almost all agree that vasopressor therapy should not be started until there ... See full document

... and meta-analyses that evaluated the effects of vasoactive medications among patients with septic shock [9, 10, ...multiple-treatments meta-analysis is the first one that altogether ... See full document

... ny studies find that fentanyl has emerged as an increasingly important drug for the sedation of bronchoscopy [12, ...the efficacy of fentanyl supplementa- tion for bronchoscopy has not been well estab- ... See full document

... of septic patients at a higher risk of death is still a ...in septic patients predicted ...in septic or septic shock ...systematic review and meta-analysis of all ... See full document

... preliminary studies, terlipressin administra- tion seems beneficial to less norepinephrine require- ment, improved hemodynamic status and more creatinine clearance during septic shock therapy ...two ... See full document

... few meta-analysis studies to evaluate the effect of EGDT or a 6-h sepsis bundle including EGDT on patients with severe sepsis or septic shock ...previous meta- ... See full document

... dropouts. Studies with a score of less than 3 represented a low-quality and high bias risks, studies got a score exceed 3 were consid- ered as high-quality ... See full document

... other studies [24, 30]. One recent Cochrane review includes six small RCTs and quasi-RCTs, and reveals a significant reduction in all-cause mortality during hospital stay in neonates with sepsis ... See full document

... Published randomized controlled trials resear- ches are going to be involved in the current studies on reaching the criteria as follows: i) only RCTs were included; ii) a comparison of PD and BTX (or ... See full document

... or meta-analyses, five were published in Chinese only, four were inappropriate owing to the age range of those studied ...retrospective studies. Randomized con- trolled trials (RCTs), prospective ... See full document

... observational studies in humans with septicemia or meningococcemia suggest a survival benefit of plasma or whole blood exchange when com- pared with expected survival rates ...some studies have reported a ... See full document

... sepsis are at greater risk for development of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); thus, it is necessary to main- tain mechanical ventilation in patients with sepsis. In 2000, ... See full document

... analysis were assumed non-responders. If the difference in dosage between studies was slight, then for sake of conve- nient calculation, we categorize them in the same group; in this case, we would make a ... See full document

... new sepsis definitions raised several concerns [26, 27], and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign suggested that lactate should continue to be measured to identify dysfunction ...of Sepsis-3 definitions, ... See full document

... On March 13, 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lapatinib, an oral, small molecule, dual tyrosine kinase inhibitor of ErbB-2 and ErbB-1, for use in combination with chemotherapy (capecitabine) in ... See full document

... OS meta-analysis was the one derived from the studies that tested iniparib, in which results were heterogeneous and did not reach statistical significance in a random-effects model ... See full document

... intention-to-treat analysis; sample size pre-definition; loss of follow-up description; adverse events reports; if the trial was performed in multiple center or a single center; and the ... See full document

... Overall, there were more acute gastrointestinal side effects in the group that used HEBRT. The side effects were even more accentuated when HEBRT was compared with higher doses of CEBRT ($78 Gy) and when the ... See full document

... a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials ...relevant studies in electronic databases up to May 2013. RCTs comparing efficacy of (DHP) with other artemisinin- based ... See full document