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ReviewAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2010

The design of future pediatric mechanical ventilation trials for acute lung injury.

Robinder G Khemani, Christopher J L Newth

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In one paragraph

Review in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
  2. Long-Term Outcomes after Protocolized Sedation versus Usual Care in Ventilated Pediatric Patients.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2018
    Trial
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  8. Association Between Tidal Volumes Adjusted for Ideal Body Weight and Outcomes in Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2019
    Article
  9. Reply to Tremlett and Kanthimathinathan and to Koopman and Kneyber.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2018
    Article
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  11. Potential Acceptability of a Pediatric Ventilator Management Computer Protocol.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2017
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  12. Variability in Usual Care Mechanical Ventilation for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Time for a Decision Support Protocol?Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2017
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  17. Research as a Standard of Care in the PICU.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2016
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robinder G KhemaniUniversity of Southern California, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA. rkhemani@chla.usc.edu
Christopher J L Newth
University of Southern California · US

Funding

THAPCA Trials - Scientific ApplicationU01HL094345 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MOLER, FRANK W · 2009 to 2016
$12.7M
Physiologically Guided Ventilator Strategies in ChildrenU10HD050012 · NICHD · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES · PI NEWTH, CHRISTOPHER JOHN · 2005 to 2014
$3.7M
Advanced Computational Framework for Decision Support in Critically Ill ChildrenRC1LM010639 · NLM · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES · PI WETZEL, RANDALL C · 2009 to 2010
$990k
NHLBI NIH HHS 1U01HL094345-01NICHD NIH HHS U10HD050012-06NLM NIH HHS 1RC1LM010639-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pediatric practitioners face unique challenges when attempting to translate or adapt adult-derived evidence regarding ventilation practices for acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome into pediatric practice. Fortunately or unfortunately, there appears to be selective adoption of adult practices for pediatric mechanical ventilation, many of which pose considerable challenges or uncertainty when translated to pediatrics. These differences, combined with heterogeneous management strategies within pediatric critical care, can complicate clinical practice and make designing robust clinical trials in pediatric acute respiratory failure particularly difficult. These issues surround the lack of explicit ventilator protocols in pediatrics, either computer or paper based; differences in modes of conventional ventilation and perceived marked differences in the approach to high-frequency oscillatory ventilation; challenges with patient recruitment; the shortcomings of the definition of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome; the more reliable yet still somewhat unpredictable relationship between lung injury severity and outcome; and the reliance on potentially biased surrogate outcome measures, such as ventilator-free days, for all pediatric trials. The purpose of this review is to highlight these challenges, discuss pertinent work that has begun to address them, and propose potential solutions or future investigations that may help facilitate comprehensive trials on pediatric mechanical ventilation and define clinical practice standards.

Indexed as

Intensive Care Units, PediatricAcute Lung InjuryChildClinical Trials as TopicCritical CareHumansRespiration, Artificial

Identifiers

PMID20732987
PMCPMC3029934
OpenAlexW2016890843

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