ReviewIntensive care medicine2024
Challenging management dogma where evidence is non-existent, weak, or outdated: part II.
Review in Intensive care medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sodium bicarbonate for "metabolic acidosis": an illustration of the Goodhart's law.Journal of intensive care · 2026Article
- Philosophical and distinct SLE epitomes: dogmas in conflict with evidences and an intellectual dissonance between established pathophysiological models.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Hypophosphataemia in Critical Illness: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Many dogmas influence daily clinical practice, and critical care medicine is no exception. We previously highlighted the weak, questionable, and often contrary evidence base underpinning four established medical managements-loop diuretics for acute heart failure, routine use of heparin thromboprophylaxis, rate of sodium correction for hyponatremia, and 'every hour counts' for treating bacterial meningitis. We now provide four further examples in this "Dogma II" piece (a week's course of antibiotics, diabetic ketoacidosis algorithms, sodium bicarbonate to improve ventricular contractility during severe metabolic acidosis, and phosphate replacement for hypophosphatemia) where routine practice warrants re-appraisal.
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