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Rapid Response Teams: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Critically reviews and assesses the effect of RRTs on reducing cardiopulmonary arrest and hospital mortality rates. [2010]

Evidence and consensus-based German guidelines for the management of analgesia, sedation and delirium in intensive care

Evidence-based consensus guidelines, from German working group on analgesia, sedation and delirium management in intensive care. [2010]

Evidence-based Decision Making in Critical Care Medicine

Tools for promoting the principles of evidence-based decision making in intensive care, with recommendations), links, and a selective journal club.

Critical Care Scientific Statements and Practice Guidelines

Evidence-based guidelines collection from the American Thoracic Society (ATS).

Guidelines & Consensus Statements

Evidence-based guidelines on intensive care medicine, available as downloadable PDFs. From the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).

Physiology versus evidence-based guidance for critical care practice

Critical examination of some of the most recent randomized trials performed in Intensive Care, analyzing their premises, hypothesis and outcome. [2015]

Advances in the support of respiratory failure: putting all the evidence together

Critical review of clinical trial data on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). [2015]

Paradigm shifts in critical care medicine: the progress we have made

Highlights some of the paradigm shifts seen in processes of critical care, including the limitations of randomized trials. [2015]

Parenteral nutrition: never say never

Reviews the benefits of parenteral nutrition (PN) in critically ill patients, and the best clinical trial evidence in support. [2015]

Reproducibility of clinical research in critical care: a scoping review | BMC Medicine | Full Text

Although the ability to reproduce experiments is a defining principle of evidence-based science, this scoping review found that a minority of published critical care practices were evaluated for reproducibility, and less than half had reproducible effects.