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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2020

The fluid challenge.

Jean-Louis Vincent, Maurizio Cecconi, Daniel De Backer

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Crystalloid vs colloid fluid resuscitation in polytrauma patients: a systematic review.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025
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  13. Goal-directed therapy: what is the goal again?Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2025
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  15. A Mini-Fluid Challenge to Predict Fluid Responsiveness in Swine.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2025
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  16. Vasopressor Therapy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jean-Louis VincentDepartment of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium. jlvincent@intensive.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6011-6951
Maurizio CecconiDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
Daniel De BackerDepartment of Intensive Care, CHIREC Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Central Venous PressureFluid TherapyHemodynamicsHumans

Identifiers

PMID33371895
PMCPMC7771055

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