The quest for the holy volume therapy.

Edoardo De Robertis, Arash Afshari, Dan Longrois

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Article in European journal of anaesthesiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it

–field-weighted citation impact

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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

The impact of goal-directed fluid therapy on postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing thoracic surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2024
Pooled it
Prospective comparison of the effects of intraoperative goal-directed fluid therapy and restrictive fluid therapy on complications in thoracoscopic lobectomy.The Journal of international medical research · 2021
Trial
Anesthesia management of patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: A retrospective study of single center.Frontiers in surgery · 2022
Article
Optimal fluid therapy for thoracic surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019
Article
The dose of hydroxyethyl starch 6% 130/0.4 for fluid therapy and the incidence of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery: A retrospective matched study.PloS one · 2017
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Intravascular volume therapy in adults: Guidelines from the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany.2016

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Edoardo De RobertisFrom the Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatologic Sciences - Section of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy (EDR), Department of Anaesthesia, Mother and children section, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (AA),and Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris 7- Denis Diderot, Paris, France (DL).

Arash Afshari

Dan Longrois

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID27270704

DOI10.1097/EJA.0000000000000441

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