Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Mar 2015
Multicenter Study Observational StudyDiagnostic yield and safety of CT scans in ICU.
Critically ill patients often require CT scans. Adverse events (AE) can occur during intra-hospital transport (IHT). The aim of this prospective study was to determine the diagnostic and therapeutic yield and the safety of CT scans in ICU patients. ⋯ The CT scan as a diagnostic procedure invalidated a diagnostic hypothesis and led to a therapeutic change in more than half of the cases.
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Intensive care medicine · Mar 2015
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyProtocolized fluid therapy in brain-dead donors: the multicenter randomized MOnIToR trial.
Critical shortages of organs for transplantation jeopardize many lives. Observational data suggest that better fluid management for deceased organ donors could increase organ recovery. We conducted the first large multicenter randomized trial in brain-dead donors to determine whether protocolized fluid therapy increases the number of organs transplanted. ⋯ In brain-dead organ donors, protocol-guided fluid therapy compared to usual care may not increase the number of organs transplanted per donor.