Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21211068›Full record

ReviewCritical care (London, England)2010

Statins STAT for (over)ventilated patients?

Wolfgang M Kuebler

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In one paragraph

Review in Critical care (London, England), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Wolfgang M KueblerThe Keenan Research Centre at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael's Hospital. kueblerw@smh.toronto.on.ca
St. Michael's Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A decade after the introduction of lung-protective ventilation strategies with low tidal volumes, the adverse effects of mechanical ventilation remain a scientific and clinical challenge. This situation has fueled the search for adjuvant pharmacological strategies to advance the benefit of protective ventilation in an additive or synergistic manner. In a recent issue of Critical Care, Müller and coworkers demonstrate convincingly that the initiation of high-dose simvastatin treatment prior to the onset of mechanical ventilation can attenuate adverse effects in overventilated mice. The present commentary discusses the need for adjuvant therapy in mechanical ventilation, the scientific rational for statin therapy in this context, and potential limitations for its implementation into clinical practice.

Indexed as

AnimalsFemaleHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsSimvastatinVentilator-Induced Lung InjuryHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsSimvastatin

Identifiers

PMID21211068
PMCPMC3220041
OpenAlexW2129079176

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.