ArticleResuscitation plus2025
The art of conducting a good pilot study: a discussion of the BETA-ARREST pilot trial.
Article in Resuscitation plus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- One termination of resuscitation rule to guide them all?Resuscitation plus · 2026Article
- Resuscitation 2025 congress: launch of the resuscitation guidelines, scientific advances, education, equity, and innovation across the chain of survival.Resuscitation plus · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This journal club article was conducted as part of the 2024/25 Young ERC Resuscitation Science Masterclass. In this paper, we provide a critical appraisal of the BETA-ARREST trial "Landiolol for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation in Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest: a Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Pilot Trial" by Gelbenegger et al. 2024, and discuss what constitutes a good pilot study.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.