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Year in Review 2014: Critical Care Medicine
Eric J. Seeley, M.D., F.C.C.P . Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of California, San Francisco
Disclosures
- I receive laboratory support from CytoVale
Diagnostics for research on early sepsis diagnostics
- I am a co-site PI for Pulmonx and PneumRx
bronchoscopic lung volume reduction studies
Why I Selected These Studies…
- Rigorously conducted large RCTs
- They were published in major journals
- They answer common “Yeah, buts…”
There are many “Yeah but’s” when it comes to key therapies in CCM
– “Yeah, but in the EGDT trial (Rivers), it was unclear if RBCs and ScvO2 guided therapy helped and wasn’t it single center trial with a COI involving the Edward’s catheter?” – “Yeah, but in a septic patients with low albumin, subgroup analysis suggests that albumin resuscitation has a mortality benefit (SAFE Trial).” – “Yeah, but in patients who are hypertensive at baseline, shouldn’t we target a higher MAP goal?” – “Yeah, but wasn’t there a study in the NEJM that suggests a mortality benefit to thrombolysis in sub-massive PE”