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ArticleCanadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie2021

Flow is not perfusion, and perfusion is not function: ancillary testing for the diagnosis of brain death.

Guillaume Plourde, Joel Neves Briard, Sam D Shemie, Jai Jai Shiva Shankar, Michaël Chassé

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Article in Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Ancillary tests for brain death.Frontiers in neurology · 2024
    Review
  8. Rationale for revisions to the definition of death and criteria for its determination in Canada.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023
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  9. Knowledge gaps in the definition and determination of death.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023
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  10. Review
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  13. In reply: Mistaken concepts on the use of ancillary testing in brain death diagnosis.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2022
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  14. Mistaken concepts on the use of ancillary testing in brain death diagnosis.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Guillaume PlourdeDivision of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Joel Neves BriardDepartment of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Sam D ShemieDivision of Critical Care, Montréal Children's Hospital, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Jai Jai Shiva ShankarDepartment of Radiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Michaël ChasséDivision of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. michael.chasse@umontreal.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Brain DeathCerebrovascular CirculationBrainHumansPerfusion

Identifiers

PMID33942244
PMCPMC8175303

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